Ext2 guide replacement?

[AlphaWolf]

Speak of the guide, what somebody ought to do one of these days is write a guide applet for the tivo that caches the guide data from the mfs to ext2, and parses it with a faster algorithm. Not only would we have a speedier guide, but you could bring the grid guide to standalone sw.

[tiguere]

Speak of the guide, what somebody ought to do one of these days is write a guide applet for the tivo that caches the guide data from the mfs to ext2, and parses it with a faster algorithm. Not only would we have a speedier guide, but you could bring the grid guide to standalone sw.


I agree with you on that. One of the things I like more on the UTV, is that the guide is a lot more faster than in the tivo, I really hate it.
Also, in my hdvr2, it takes about 3 secs to change from a channel to the next one using the channel up/down button.

[erhan]

Speak of the guide, what somebody ought to do one of these days is write a guide applet for the tivo that caches the guide data from the mfs to ext2, and parses it with a faster algorithm. Not only would we have a speedier guide, but you could bring the grid guide to standalone sw.
Yeah, I actually got fed up with the speed (or lack thereof) of the guide and started working on it. Caching it to flat files was easy and already have some C code to do search, etc. The part I have no clue about is to be able to listen to the Guide button from the remote and put it on the screen.

[splitsec]

Yeah, I actually got fed up with the speed (or lack thereof) of the guide and started working on it. Caching it to flat files was easy and already have some C code to do search, etc. The part I have no clue about is to be able to listen to the Guide button from the remote and put it on the screen.

I would look at using Tivo Control Station. It has a lot of what you need to do. (intercept remote codes, and display stuff on the screen).

If you google for Tivo Control Station it should be amoung the top three links. There doesn't appear to be a good link to it on this forum. (unless my last post comes up, and then there is a link right to the home page. :) )

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[erhan]

Yes, I know about TCS. That takes care of (somewhat) remote, but I would prefer a leaner approach. As you add layers the response will not become better that what it is. On-screen display is also a big problem. My guess is that's what makes the grid style guide slow anyway, there is a lot of rendering going on.

[AlphaWolf]

Yes, I know about TCS. That takes care of (somewhat) remote, but I would prefer a leaner approach. As you add layers the response will not become better that what it is. On-screen display is also a big problem. My guess is that's what makes the grid style guide slow anyway, there is a lot of rendering going on.

Well, my final note about this subject in this thread; you might want to talk about cwingert about this. His OHM project operates completely independently of tivoapp, and it might be the perfect addition to it if it is ever released.