[rescue] TiVo Hack

[joshua d boyd]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:52:27AM -0400, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:19:38AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > 
> > What do you mean by broadcasting the tivo?  Are you recording TV to the
> > TiVo and streaming it to peoples workstations?  Are you using a video
> > splitter and taking the TiVo signal and sending it to TVs around the
> > department?
> >
> > And what is the Ultra5 for?
> 
> i can't answer for him there, but it's funny this should all come up, i was
> visiting friends this weekend, and my one friend has a tivo all hacked up.
> he has the ethernet for it and a 40GB drive in it.  it NFS mounts a drive on
> his server, and then things got fuzzy.  he's not the best at explaining what
> he has done, so he lost me, something about putting the raw video on the drive
> and then using the server to turn it into MPEG4.  he then used his winders
> laptop to play one of the videos.  it looks GOOD on the high-res laptop screen.
> i was very impressed, once i move and get a TiVo i'll be talking to him. :)

Cool.  But the real question is, when will he be able to take streaming
QT, Mpeg4 (of all MS and non MS variatties), and realmedia, and convert it
for download to the TiVo?  


> his next plan is to hack in a wireless card so he doesn't need to run a cable
> down to his living-room.  i'll let you all know how that goes.

Bah.  Just run the the ethernet.  Currently I've run ethernet from my
office to the guest room, my parents office, and the family
room.  Currently, I want to replace the central hub, then also add
ethernet to my bedroom.  There has been some discussion of ethernet in the
kitchen and living room, but nothing definate yet.  Need to run speaker
connections to the kitchen first.
 
> you run a web server on the tivo, you point your web browser at the tivo, you
> can then do such things as change the channel, or modify season pass settings
> or anything else that you can do from the remote, but without bringing up the
> menu on-screen, so you could sit down and fiddle with the tivo's recording
> schedule (as an example) while someone else is watching tv without bothering
> them at all.

Yeah, but where are the docs on doing that?
 
> > I see info on upgrading harddrives, and Trimble's (or was that Trumble,
> > well whatever the SAMBA guy's name is...) ethernet page, but what other
> > good pages are there?
> 
> i'll have to ask him about that, see what pages he used.
> 
> -brian
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