Extracting in PC

[TomW]

I've run into a problem while trying to extract from a tivo drive mounted in a PC. I put the tivo drive as secondary master (HDC) and booted from the 25xtreme CD. I logged on as root, mounted the pc drive (hda1) and hdc4. My intention was to use ExtractStreamDx1 (in the /bin directory) and chmod +x'ed) to extract from my tivo drive to my XP drive. I know the ExactStreamDx1 works fine when mounted in the Tivo because I tried it but filled up the hdc4 partition after about 5 minutes of movie was extracted, but won't work when mounted in the PC . It comes up with the error "Can't execute binary file" (or equivalent). I can see the XP fat 32 drive no problem so I have a valid destination and have no trouble navigating around hdc4 partition. I've searched every message for a method to do this but have been unsuccessful so far. I've racked my brain and read every message refering to this since xteme came out and someone could help me with this (extracting with tivo drive mounted in PC) I would be grateful.

[captain_video]

I realize this doesn't answer your question but I strongly recommend that you get yourself a TurboNet adapter for your Tivo. Video extraction is a snap using jdiner's TyTool. You'll never have to keep swapping your drive between the Tivo and the PC.

[Fugg]

The reason ExtractStreamDx1 is not working for you is that it was written to run on a PPClinux system.(the tivo system) When your running the drive on your pc, your running x86linux. They are totally different systems.

I seem to remember a thread a while back about someone doing what you’re trying to do. I believe it was in the dtivo forum... maybe ;)

The trick was, I believe, to run ShowList.tcl on the drive before you remove it from the tivo. This will give you a list of the shows on the tivo along with the fsid numbers. (ShowList.tcl can be run using just a serial connection)

Once you have the fsid’s, you can then pop the drive in your pc and use jdiner’s mfs_stream (the version written for the x86 platform, and available in the dtivo forum how-to thread) to get the ty’s onto a local drive.

You’ll just have to search a little bit.

Good Luck!!

[AlphaWolf]

I posted a big howto about this a while ago in the extraction sticky, seemed to have dissapeared a few days ago though. (problems with DD admins?) Not going to post another one because it took a long time to write and I can't recall the exact steps.

You should be able to figure it out by grabbing an i386 compiled version of mfs_stream, run nowshowing.tcl modified to output to stderr, and read the readme for mfs_export (mfs_stream is used the same way only you enter every part FSID in order instead of just one).