EyeTV Software Manual

Controller Button Descriptions

EyeTV Information Display

This blue area displays the name of the program currently being watched or recorded, the elapsed time, and the channel on which the program is playing. Clicking the time display toggles between elapsed time, total time, and time re- maining.

EyeTV Programs - Click this button to bring up the EyeTV Programs window, which displays all of the Recordings, Scheduels, Playlists, Favorite Channels, and the Program Guide (See Chapter 4, The EyeTV Programs Window).

Current Channel List - Use this drop-down menu to switch between Favorite

Channel lists, and all channels.

Channel Number - Click to use a drop-down menu to switch to any available channel.

Channel Up - Click this right facing triangle to switch to the next higher channel.

Channel Down - Click this left facing triangle to switch to the next lower chan- nel.

Time Slider - This blue bar gives a visual representation of your current position in the show. For example, you are at the beginning of the show when the blue bar is at the left edge of the timeline and you are at the end of the show when the blue bar fills the timeline. Click anywhere inside the slider to jump to any part of the recording; click and drag to scan through the program.

Timeshifting Control Buttons

Play/Pause - Click this button to play/pause the current program. In the case of live television, EyeTV keeps recording the live feed onto your disk. The pause time remaining for your now timeshifted show depends on the free space avail- able on your disk.

Record - Clicking this button starts or stops recording the current program. The record button is highlighted pink during a recording. By default, the manually started recording’s duration is set to 180 minutes (3 hours). If you want to re-

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2 specifications

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