[TriLUG] TiVo and Linux

[Joel Ebel]

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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