[mythtv-users] What the frell is MythTiVo?? (was Re: Mythtivo)

[Shawn]

If there's a patch to mplayer, I'm sure it is effective for mencoder
too. Should work like a charm. Anything mplayer can play, it can encode.

Now, I just don't know how to hack a series 2 running 4.0 version of
TiVo's OS.

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 14:56, Ian Forde wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 16:55, Shawn wrote:
> > Only thing is it doesn't mention whether there is a need for the home
> > media option, or if something needs to be hacked into my TiVo.
> 
> Nope - you don't need the home media option.  What you do need, however,
> it to have your Tivo networked.  I've got a Sony Series 1 Tivo.  It's
> got a TurboNet card in it, which is how I'm able to get into it.  I also
> had to run vserver (on the Tivo) so that MythTivo could read shows from
> the Tivo (and stream them to the mythtv.)
> 
> > Oh well, I'll download it sometime and play. I used to have more
> > patience for doco-deficiency.
> 
> It's pretty easy - just realize.  All it does is make it so that any
> Myth frontend box can watch shows recorded from your Tivo.  (What would
> be really cool would be if it could also extract them for transcoding!)
> 
> 	-I