[mythtv-users] This old TiVo

[jedi]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:19:42AM -0500, stuart wrote:
> 
> 
> jedi wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:42:51PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Johnny Russ wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Jeremy Sullivan <jersully at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I probably already know the answer to this, but there isn't a way to
> >>>> install MythTV on a series 2 TiVo is there?  I'm looking at switching from
> >>>> TiVo to MythTV (been wanting to investigate it for years) and I'd LOVE to
> >>>> use my two TiVos as FEs.
> >>>>
> >>> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/349107
> >> Which is to say, No.
> >>
> >> There are, however, things like http://galleon.sourceforge.net/
> >> that you could run on your MythBox to send content to your TiVo.
> > 
> >      This looks interesting. Although sadly I suspect that the 
> > only thing that my old Tivos would be able to play off of my
> > myth backend is my mp3s.
> > 
> >      No divx or h264...
> > 
> > [deletia]
> >
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1) For JEDI: What if you transcoded the mythtv shows to SD on the MBE 
> machine?  If galleon will not do it, what about VLC?

    It would have to be in realtime since I would not have the storage
capacity to accomodate my video library otherwise. I'm not even sure if
this is feasable with current general purpose CPUs.

    Between the storage and the CPU overhead, it probably makes more 
sense to just spend money on a popcorn hour or AppleTV.

> 
> 2) Is there an equivalent for ReplayTV boxes?  DVArchive, AFAIK, does 
> not work w/ the mythtv data base and, I suspect, at best will serve up 
> mythtv shows with their encrypted names.  And, I am sure, commercial 
> flagging will not work - completely different paradigm from what I recall.