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I hope this isn't against forum etiquette, but I wanted to let folks here know I've got a socketed Series-3 unit for sale over on fleaBay:

Item 130269640024.

The unit is in great shape, and...

I have an S3, here's how to get the shows:

Download as TY using TySuiteJ (not MPG)
Use bcc's S3toTS to convert the wierd S3 TY format to a usable transport stream format.
Use VideoReDo or...

You could re-do your hard drive with mfstools, giving yourself a very large swapfile.
Then use pdisk to carefully siphon off the extra swapspace and re-allocate it to partition 5 (one of the...

Didn't Amazon try this last year with the $100 XBox360 deal, which ultimately brought their entire site down to a crawl for all visitors, screwed a lot of loyal customers, and never translated into...

If you read up previously in the thread, I'm pretty sure they're trying to get basic TY playback included with the VLC distro. StealthDave even posted a couple of newer plugins.

AFAIK, the "TMF" format is just a big tar file with all the original recording 'chunks' inside, directly pulled off the Tivo's hard drive. You should be able to use 7-zip or other untar utilities to...

Use the MFSLive boot CD, it has pretty much all the Tivo friendly utilities installed including a working bootpage (and even hexdump, for checking those tivoapp patch locations).

To see boot...

Those Logitech "Harmony" programmable remotes know about Tivo discrete codes. You could set up individual settings for each Tivo on one remote. Disclaimer: The Harmony thingies are nice but tend to...

Tivo's own help site describes how to set up discrete codes for each Tivo unit.

Try dos2unix on it. Sometimes when you FTP upload text-based files they get extra ^M end-lines added.

Also, as in your original post, check for executable status.
Check your bootpage for the...

I also think one reason for the very explicit non-commercial licenses is to add strength behind eBay (and other) takedown notices for #1 and #2 above.

IIRC, there have been at least a couple of...

Have you tried a modem dial-out, yet? If it updates over modem, you know you've got some sort of networking problem.

If modem doesn't work, it may be the hard drive.

The big question is whether your S1 unit is "hacked" and had encryption disabled for your recordings.

There's a few ways to handle this.
If your S1 recordings are non-encrypted just use rc3105's...

I think a lot of it in my case is because I have the free VMware server (and its Virtual LANs) so I *think* Tivo.NET doesn't like the multi-homed nature of my network interfaces.



Excellent --...

This is silly: Both Tivo.NET and Armoo's pyTivo rely on the same ffmpeg transcoding to work. Since I cannot seem to keep Tivo.NET running for any length of time, I've been using pyTivo for my...

The original post says he had a TCD240 die on him, and they sent a replacement TCD540. He then goes on to say his drive was "hacked" and also that his Wife wants her shows off the dead TiVo. ...

It might be network driver problem.
Unplug your USB-Ethernet dongle and see if the machine boots. If that works, but crashes/reboots when you plug in the USB-Ethernet dongle, then you need to make...

Yes, the 540 needs a PROM mod (or better yet, a socket) to "hack".

The internal hardware is different enough that the old TCD240's drive/software won't work on the 540.

There's a couple of problems in running a more generic linux system on TiVo hardware.

First is the signed boot kernel, requiring hardware modification. This alone limits the possible audience.
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I wouldn't say misleading, there seems to be very very few folks who had your expertise and knowledge of what needed to be done with the S3 recordings.

Seeing as I was one of the respondents in...

As mentioned, you need a PROM mod to be able to change the boot kernel. But once that's done, everything else is software on the hard drive, and the hard drive is relatively easy to fix/replace if...

Some of those guys are claiming some pretty crazy numbers, one fella is saying around 20Mbps or so.

My own experience with the S3 has thus far never shown more than 4.5mbps with the stock drivers.

There's two checks you need to defeat.

First, the PROM's kernel check on boot.
Second, the initrd stored in the Tivo kernel which checks the root filesystem for "unauthorized" files.
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Chances are if you're getting the "Welcome, Powering Up..." message and nothing else happens your hard drive likely died.

Luckily, new drives are relatively cheap.

I vastly prefer FedEx as well. And they're not usually any cheaper, just better. UPS always leaves my stuff unattended on the front-porch, FedEx makes efforts to hide it on my back porch. UPS...