Where can we find these nice
tools?
-----Original Message-----
From: Don McAllister
[mailto:donmc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 June 2002
1:47 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] TiVo
Toys
I was just going to post this to the
Turbonet bulk buy list only, but in view of the increased uptake of the
Tivo
due to the Powerhouse deal, I thought I’d share with the rest of the
group:
Just to wet your appetites prior to the
arrival of the TurboNet cards I’ve now got the following utilities
working on my TiVo:
TivoWeb: Brilliant mini web server
allowing
you to access the program details of programs recorded on the Tivo. Delete
recordings and review suggestions via browser. Mount file systems. Control
your
Tivo via a graphical representation of the Peanut via a browser.
TyTools4: Excellent video extraction
utility written by one of our
US cousins. Up till a
few
days ago this didn’t support UK Tivos but the guy has now released a
version for UK Tystreams. Allows you to review programs recorded on the
Tivo
via a PC client and extract the Video and Audio streams to your PC in a
single
point and click operation. Mind you the muxing of the separate streams into
a
standard mpeg file is a bit of a pigs ear at the minute requiring various
other
mpeg utiliies but is achievable and gives surprisingly good results. The
TyTools guy is looking at including the muxing into the TyTools app in a
future
release which will be a godsend.
Merge.tcl: Another invaluable tool only
just released. This little beauty allows you to select and tag multiple
programs via the standard TiVo interface using the normal Remote and
“Save to VCR” the multiple selections in a single operation.
Currently, TiVo only allows you to save a single program to VCR at any one
time. I don’t know about
you
but SWMBO requests loads of programmes eg “The Operation”
–
don’t ask? but never seems to watch them. I don’t want to go to
the
effort of video extraction for this type of stuff, I just want it off my
Tivo.
For example, I can now select 4 separate 1 hour episodes of her favourite
progs
and dump them to a four hour tape overnight. The script even puts the
multiple
titles in the Header Screen. SWMBO isn’t bothered about VCR quality
(and
besides which she’ll probably never watch them) and they can be
archived
to tidy up my Tivo menus. Hey, when I get a recordable DVD, I’ll just
dump them to that J
Cheers
Don
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