[TriLUG] TiVo and Linux

[Matt Pusateri]

This is why ReplayTV's are so much better, you simply need DVarchive
and you can pull any of your recorded shows down and play them with
VLC.

Matt


On Mon, January 2, 2006 8:58 pm, Jason Tower wrote:
> i also have a couple of tivos, tried setting up tivo2go in a windows
> VM.
>   it plays audio but the video is blank, presumably it's trying to
> write
> directly to hardware so it won't work under vmware.  since the .tivo
> file is tied to your media access key (read: DRM) i'd be surprised if
> it
> works easily under linux.  but if you manage to get it working please
> let me know :)
>
> jason
>
> 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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