Interesting... my experience so far is more optimistic than the dialogue
on that site suggests.
I can do the following:
1.) Download the TiVo recordings by using a web browser to https://<tivo's
ip address> where the username is tivo and the password is the Media
Access Key.
2.) In a VMWare window running Windows XP,, run the freeware application
DSD dump to extract the mpeg2 stream (see http://prish.com/etivo/tbr.htm)
3.) Using mplayer or xine, play the mpeg2 stream under linux.
I have not yet figured out how to burn a DVD with the video (any
suggestions?), since dvdauthor is so opaque to me. And what I can't do is
replace the dsddump step with a linux-based FLOSS solution.
Andy
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Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Joel Ebel wrote:
http://www.alt.org/wiki/index.php/TiVoToGo
Andrew Perrin wrote:
My wife and I bought each other TiVo for Hanukkah. It's lots of fun, but I
would like to be able to view the files using the Tivo To Go system. This
creates a .tivo file, which appears to be MPEG2 encoded plus some
encapsulation system. Has anyone managed to get the video out of this
packet to allow playing it? I've tried compiling the mplayer-tivo package,
but with no luck - it just plays garbage. I can use a windows app,
DSD-Debug, to dump the mpeg2 stream and then copy it to linux, but would
prefer a cleaner solution than that. Any advice?
Thanks,
Andy
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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
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