EtiVo: Automatic Re-encoding and catalogging of TiVo shows - 1.0.1924.0

[Masnark]

New version 1.0.1924.0

Main site is at http://prish.com/etivo - you can find installation guides there.

Forums can be found at http://active.prish.com/prishforum

Downloads are at http://prish.com/etivo/downloads.htm

Change lists can be found at http://prish.com/EtiVo/EtiVo_ChangeList.htm

New version post

[jasch]

Great work. Not no be harsh or anything, but what advantages do I have over having my videos on WMV instead of the readily-available MPG's or TY's (using TyTool).

[Masnark]

Well.. It all depends on what you need/want.

They main reason I wanned to hack my TIVO was to enable my sister over-seas to download shows she wants.

Things that might or might not be useful - these were the things I was interested in:
1. I can store 1000 hours / 100Gb of decent quality (to me) shows - I wont need to stream or download things I want to see from my TiVo.
2. The files are downloadable over a slow uplink connection (My DSL out is only about 128kbit - downloading 1GB over it would take forever).
3. You can have multi-bitrate WMVs - which basically means that if you want to stream movies from your house to some external target, it will be pretty easy to do by using Windows Encoding Server (or even Windows Media Encoder, which is free).
4. I got to write a multi-threaded communication layer. I haven't done that in a very long while.

[jasch]

The only reason I can think off, is the smaller file size... What would be so great. I'll give your app a try, and see how much space can I gain over the extracted videos.

[jasch]

What runtimes do I need? It says unable to locate mscoree.dll, so I guess I am missing some support libraries...

[Masnark]

You need the .net runtime. I keep forgetting most people are not Mirosoftophiles like me.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframewo...t/default.aspx

I am adding a "Requirements" section to my post.

The easiest way is just to download it from http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp

[jasch]

Yeah. I am not installing a 24mb framework, just for a couple of DLL's. I am very anti-MS as it is...

Sorry.

[Masnark]

Most people are. (anti-MS)

[Barrett]

This sounds like a cool tool, would be useful for pocketPC users, I may give it a shot when I move out and leave my DirecTivo at home

[Masnark]

I have a new, much much much more stable version.

You can find it here:
http://prish.com/etivo/downloads.htm

And you can find much more usage info in http://prish.com/EtiVo.

[sanderton]

Very tidy!

[malfunct]

Originally Posted by jasch

Yeah. I am not installing a 24mb framework, just for a couple of DLL's. I am very anti-MS as it is...

Sorry.

You don't need the entire framework, only the redistributable which is much smaller. Also you need more than a "couple dlls", think java VM.

[Masnark]

Does anyone have any idea how I can see what my FTP Client is doing wrong by enabling logging on mfsFtp or something?

I am getting the following problems:
* Sometimes I will try opening connections and it will just downright fail.
* I sometimes have problems with MfsFtp crashing completely. It's probably something that my client is sending wrong.

Thanks

[sanderton]

You can start mfs_ftp in the foreground and watch its activity via telnet, or change the info(dbl) varable to some high number to see more in the regular log.

[Masnark]

Originally Posted by sanderton

You can start mfs_ftp in the foreground and watch its activity via telnet, or change the info(dbl) varable to some high number to see more in the regular log.

Hrrm...

How do I run it in the foreground? When I execute it from telnet (mfsftp.tcl) it automatically runs itself in the background. Is there any switch I can use?

Thanks.