[TriLUG] TiVo and Linux

[Joel Ebel]

Being a Wiki, others might appreciate anything you could add to it if 
it's helpful to their discussion.  For me, and for many other tivo 
freaks, this is of little use, since I've had the ability to extract 
shows long before Tivo made it a feature.  You can find a lot of other 
discussion of tivo, including a little about ToGo extraction here:
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=43
That's the main repository of tivo hacking information.

Joel

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> 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
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> 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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