On Tuesday, software company El Gato announced that it would release version 3.0.2 of its EyeTV video recording and playback software in the near term.

The update, which is not yet available for download, will provide the following fixes and changes:
-Full support for h.264 broadcasts.
-Closed Captions Support in QuickTime Format Exports (North America only)
-Separate Deinterlacing Options for Standard TV and HDTV
-Improved On Screen Menus
-Unplayed Recordings Badge
-Support has been added for the TerraTec Cinergy T USB XXS.
The overall stability and reliability of EyeTV has been improved.
-EyeTV 3.0.2 now automatically updates the built-in EyeConnect server. If you are using EyeTV 3's shared archive feature, this requires updating to EyeTV 3.0.2 on all computers.
-A problem that caused MPEG Program Stream exports to be corrupted has been resolved.
-A problem where Smart Guides would not update if two Smart Guides used the same criteria for "Any field" has been resolved.
-A problem which caused the Smart Guide searches to be 1 hour off has been resolved.
-A problem where edited MPEG-4 EyeTV recordings would not play back over markers has been resolved.
-Numerous improvements to resolve problems while running EyeTV from a non-admin user account.
-Problems which would cause the EPG to not be updated on a Standard User Account have been resolved.
-The RAM Cache in EyeTV is now limited to 1.5GB.
-The channel sorting for European channels has been improved.
-A problem that would cause the Turbo progress bar in EyeTV to use a large amount of CPU when exporting has been resolved.
-EyeTV now correctly auto-tunes both UHF and VHF channels in New Zealand.
-EyeTV now automatically starts and stops the EyeConnect server when the location of the EyeTV archive has changed.
-Resolved a problem with shared recordings not appearing.
-A problem which caused SECAM D/K analog signals to lose audio has been resolved.
-DVB subtitles no longer display over the editor and On Screen Menus.
-Improved parsing of the XMLTV data. Errors are now logged to the Console when XMLTV files can not be parsed. Successful parsing of the XMLTV data is also now logged to the Console.
-Several problems with EyeTV's auto update feature have been fixed so that downloads are now more reliable.

EyeTV 3 retails for about US$123.95 (or 79.95 Euros) and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later to install and run.

If you've played with EyeTV 3 and have any feedback about it, let us know in the comments or forums.