EyeTV plugin SDK 1.0 review

With the new functionality of the plug-in interface, the EyeTV software gives third parties access to the raw incoming MPEG-2 transport stream packet data.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 33K Developer: El Gato, Inc. Price: $0.00 Updated: 24 Nov 2005

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With the new functionality of the plug-in interface, the EyeTV software gives third parties access to the raw incoming MPEG-2 transport stream packet data. At this time the API is available for the following products:
- EyeTV 200 (analog)
- EyeTV 300/310 (DVB-S)
- EyeTV 400/410 (DVB-T)
- EyeTV 500 (ATSC)

The plug-in receives plugged and unplugged notifications. It can request or release individual PIDs within the MPEG-2 transport stream, and most importantly, it has access to transport stream packets in real time, as they arrive from the device.

EyeTV plugin SDK is called before EyeTV looks at the packets, so it is even possible to modify the data.

The SDK includes a plug-in sample Xcode project as an easy way to demonstrate EyeTV plug-in functionality. This plug-in displays information about the captured MPEG-2 transport stream.