[TriLUG] TiVo and Linux

[Andrew Perrin]

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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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


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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