On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 23:34, Eric Jorgensen wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 07:58:18 -0700 > "skeeterskip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone hacked Tivo to play Freevo or Mythtv? I know there is hack > > for storage space, but it would be interesting to convert Tivo in to > > full media box for playing digital movies and DVDs as well. > > > Series 1 tivo has a 50mhz PowerPC 405gp that is *Not up to the task, > and an IBM hardware mpeg codec that pretty much does mpeg. > > Series 2 tivo has a 200mhz NEC MipsV processor that is probably up to > it. > > Thing is, I play with Freevo but i won't give up my TiVo, because the > TiVo user interface is vastly superior. >
Since you guys are talking about this, doesn't the Tivo and ReplayTV both have encoding on their mainboards? Isn't this why they can get away with such a small processor? I have never used either so I could use some enlightenment. I know that my freevo box running at 1ghz with 512MB of RAM can do mpeg4 compression as it records, are Tivo or ReplayTV able to do this also or are they using mpeg2? I am using an old Hauppauge card that doesn't do any encoding of it's own and I know that the ATI cards do compression on the card but it is only mpeg2 are there other cards that do this on the card but using mpeg4 so that I could use a slower processor? Sorry for all the questions but I have been wondering about this for awhile. Thanks for any replies, Jon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
