TFmac

TFmac connects your Mac to Topfield TF4000 PVRs.
(what about TF5000?)

TFmac may be used for free.

Features

easy to use

preview multiple recordings (requires mplayer; existing installation can be used)

download multiple recordings to your Mac

various download formats (e.g. TS, VOB, MP3)

upload files to the Topfield

Version 0.8

Requires Mac OS X v. 10.3.5 or later. 

   

TFmac 0.8 - including mplayer 1.0pre8 (5,1 MB)
TFmac 0.8 - without mplayer (392 KB)

Version 0.9

Additional features:

• works with large Topfield hard disks (> 250 GB)
• download-progress indicator (MB/s and remaining time)

• Requires Mac OS X v. 10.4.1 or later. 

TFmac 0.9b1 - without mplayer (396 KB)

Internals

TFmac is written in Java (version 0.9 requires Java 5). It is distributed as a Mac application bundle. This provides full integration into the Mac OS X user interface: de/installation by drag and drop of the program file, brushed metal look, Mac-like window and menu handling - and a nice icon ;-)

To connect to the Topfield PVR, TFmac uses the binary of a command-line application, called tf. It was originally written by Petr Novak (PeN) an ported to the Mac by Thomas Träxler. tf is under the GPL and its source code can be obtained from Thomas.

Thomas also suggested the use of mplayer as a preview tool. So TFmac uses that, too. The latest version as well as the source code can be obtained here.

Screenshots