More fun with the TiVo
Today was a productive day. I'm am pleased with what I have accomplished.
I borrowed a PC from work yesterday so that I could take the A drive out of my TiVo and enable telnet and ftp access to it. By following these handy instructions, I managed to get both telnet and ftp access going within an hour. After that, I installed Tivo Web and obtained the ability to see a whole bunch of information from a Webserver running directly on the TiVo.
But, I was not about to stop there. Last week, I saw this and decided I'd figure out how to get programs off of the TiVo. I followed the instructions, and soon was uploading a file off of the TiVo and onto my iMac. And wouldn't ya know it, VideoLAN plays those MPEG-2 files very well. But, in my travels looking for TiVo software, I found an even better program for getting video off of the TiVo. And now, I'm saving myself quite a bit of time.
Even still, I wanted to take that video, and compress it down into something a little bit easier to distribute. No... I'm not going to start distributing South Park again, but I did want to know the general process of how things work on OS X. So, after some more searching, I found that I'll use bbdemux to split the MPEG-2 audio and video streams apart, DiVa to convert the video stream to Quicktime, and Mad to convert the audio stream to AIFF. After that, I use Quicktime Pro to join the audio and video together, and sync-hole to fix any audio sync problems. After that, it's a matter of exporting the final product into a smaller file. I like MPEG-4 so far, because it offers a really decent picture, sound, and framerate. And, it's a format that can be shared across platforms pretty well.
The only TiVo hacking project I'd like to complete is adding another 80GB of hard drive space. Soon.... very soon.
I borrowed a PC from work yesterday so that I could take the A drive out of my TiVo and enable telnet and ftp access to it. By following these handy instructions, I managed to get both telnet and ftp access going within an hour. After that, I installed Tivo Web and obtained the ability to see a whole bunch of information from a Webserver running directly on the TiVo.
But, I was not about to stop there. Last week, I saw this and decided I'd figure out how to get programs off of the TiVo. I followed the instructions, and soon was uploading a file off of the TiVo and onto my iMac. And wouldn't ya know it, VideoLAN plays those MPEG-2 files very well. But, in my travels looking for TiVo software, I found an even better program for getting video off of the TiVo. And now, I'm saving myself quite a bit of time.
Even still, I wanted to take that video, and compress it down into something a little bit easier to distribute. No... I'm not going to start distributing South Park again, but I did want to know the general process of how things work on OS X. So, after some more searching, I found that I'll use bbdemux to split the MPEG-2 audio and video streams apart, DiVa to convert the video stream to Quicktime, and Mad to convert the audio stream to AIFF. After that, I use Quicktime Pro to join the audio and video together, and sync-hole to fix any audio sync problems. After that, it's a matter of exporting the final product into a smaller file. I like MPEG-4 so far, because it offers a really decent picture, sound, and framerate. And, it's a format that can be shared across platforms pretty well.
The only TiVo hacking project I'd like to complete is adding another 80GB of hard drive space. Soon.... very soon.
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