[TriLUG] TiVo and Linux

[Jason Tower]

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
> 
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