Share multimedia content on your home network
EyeConnect is a media server application. By scanning your network for UPnP AV digital media devices, it can detect any available device to which it can serve multimedia content, and thus share all your Mac's video, TV, music and photo content with your TV or stereo. Compatible with pretty much any media content (including DivX, Xvid, WMV, JPG, iTunes library etc.), EyeConnect will set you up with a media center in minutes.
After installing the program, setting it up to work with your UPnP device is a snap. It detected our test device (a Sony PlayStation 3) instantly and immediately allowed us to start viewing content on our TV set, a much better installation experience than we had with some of the other options in this category of software.
EyeConnect offers a fairly simple, clean-cut preference pane for managing its features. Most features can't be adjusted while the server is running, so you'll need to stop it while you play around with the settings. All the obvious options are there, such as the port to send your traffic through, a list of recognised UPnP devices (from which you can allow or deny individual entries), and a section where you can choose which folders may be shared with your network device.
More interesting are the available options for enabling and disabling certain plugins for the server. Some of these allow for easy folder browsing, maintaining the structure of your iTunes library on your networked device etc, but others allow for on-the-fly transcoding of certain file types. The program only includes two transcoding plugins (and we haven't yet been able to find any more), but this is a really interesting feature which could well extend the functionality of your UPnP device.
EyeConnect is a simple media server which is a snap to install and even easier to use. Highly recommended as an option for extending your digital life. Essential software for Mac and PS3 owners.
Compatibility with EyeTV 3.4
Changes
Compatibility with EyeTV 3.4
User reviews about EyeConnect
by Anonymous
Great application, stable and user friendly, easily connect your mac to ps3.
This is a fantastic application, it makes it super easy to connect and stream anything from my mac to my TV that's connected to my PS3. I have my whole house wireless and can watch all my favorite and new content on my TV in high definition by simply turning on eye connect on my computer and my PS3 automatically see my movies, music and pictures folders. It plays back movies in various formats, avi and mp4 in 1080p wirelessly. I never had a problem with the application crashing, however if your internet connection is slow, or being throttled by your internet provider, it can affect the wireless reception, most internet providers claim that they are selling you a high speed internet with lots of bandwidth but you can quickly check the speed of your internet connection and realize that it is not what is advertised. More
by Anonymous
App has promise but don't expect support.
Decided to move media serving off of Vista onto a spare Mac (MacBook) to simplify things. I had EyeTV on another Mac (MacMini) that had been used as a media center, but had been shutdown.Things went like this...Install EyeConnect trial on MacBook. Configured and running okay. Streaming to LG BD390 and PS3. Did take a while after setup before media showed up on streaming devices, but ok.Exactly 30 days later no streaming. Since the MacMini wasn't being used I removed EyeTV from it and used the key for EyeConnect to activate. Seemed to be ok. Few days later did an update to the MacBook and when it came back up no activation.So I think maybe this serial only works with EyeTv. Ok, I go buy a license for standalone EyeConnect. A note here it took 2 days to get the serial for the purchase. That seemed absurd to me, nearly every online purchase I've made has sent the serial with a few hours (if not minutes).Okay after much negative from family, finally get serial installed and back up and running (again takes some time).Exactly 30 days later, nothing again. So I reinstall the code, looks okay. I go ahead and do some OS updates since the system is down-ish and when it comes back up, not activated. Rinse and repeat installing code.Finally after trying to find anything on Elgato's website I submit a ticket. As a note on the website, the FAQ is basically marketing content and nothing in the forums.Six days later (yep 6!!!) I get a response saying because of the holiday it would be at least another 5-6 days before my issue would be looked at.Unplug the MacBook and re-configure Vista......In all my years using Macs this is the worst example of product support I've ever seen. I consider my EyeConnect purchased flushed and Elgato has been placed on my "never again" list for purchase or recommendation.
Pros:
Has promise and when it worked it was good
Cons:
Stopped working too easily with no warning.Support is non-existant. More
by Anonymous
DLNA server.
Spent all day reading and downloading over a dozen DLNA severs that would work with my Mac and Sony DVD player, read about this one online, installed it and had it up and running flawlessly in minutes! More
by Anonymous
Eyeconnect 1.6 crashes.
The features looks very promisine, but the application is badly tested. It crashes constantly with a SIGBUS on Leopard 10.5.8. After crashing it automatically restarts and crashed again. Process: EyeConnect [576]
Path: /Library/Application Support/EyeConnect/EyeConnect.app/Contents/MacOS/EyeConnect
Identifier: EyeConnect
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]Date/Time: 2009-08-23 00:40:13.472 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: 20D35567-761B-49DA-A02B-EC06A90A6D6FException Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 1Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9277e286 mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x92785a7c mach_msg + 72
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93cace7e CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 1790
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93cadaa8 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 88
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92d5a2ac RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 283
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92d5a0c5 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 374
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92db8b56 _AcquireNextEvent + 58
7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x92db72b3 RunApplicationEventLoop + 207
8 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x00003380 main + 652
9 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x00002952 _start + 216
10 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x00002879 start + 41Thread 1 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93cfeffa CFURLCopyScheme + 42
1 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x93d033e0 CFURLCreateDataAndPropertiesFromResource + 32
2 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x000b077f ReadEyeConnectUserPreference(__CFString const*) + 439
3 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x000b09e2 GetGeneralShareForUserTCF(TCFString const&) + 182
4 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x000b0b71 LoadShareSettingsForAllUser(bool&) + 191
5 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x00098e17 UPnPIntegration::CreateCDSRoot(bool) + 111
6 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x0009a516 UPnPIntegration::Run() + 926
7 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x0009b2ce UPnPIntegrationThread::Run() + 44
8 com.elgato.EyeConnect 0x00003f47 AVThread::RunThread(void*) + 71
9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x927af155 _pthread_start + 321
10 libSystem.B.dylib 0x927af012 thread_start + 34 Pros:
Features look promising, GUI is fine
Cons:
Crashes constantly More