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Thread: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

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    HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    Hacking Tivo is another hobby of mine and the fine folks who reside at dealdatabase.com have come up with a way to stream Tivo'ed shows to your LINUX box. This is a long time coming since streaming to windows has been around for a long time.
    Got you tivo owners attention? Good!

    First you need to have a hacked Tivo (duh).
    That hacked Tivo needs to be running Vserver and if your tivo has been hacked, it likely already has that installed.
    Second Install VLC from Ubuntu's repositories.
    3rd head over to

    Sourceforge
    and get two files:
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/t...r.bz2?download
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/t...r.bz2?download
    unzip these to /usr/lib/vlc/demux you will need to sudo to access this directory.

    now for the fun part
    start vlc
    file-open-network stream
    in the box type:
    tivo://tivoipaddress/plist

    this generates a playlist of all the shows on the Tivo.
    go to view playlist to see it
    double click on a show.
    Enjoy.
    This works great over wireless connections too!
    Last edited by gunnyman; May 2nd, 2005 at 07:20 PM.

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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    I gave it a shot, but VLC doesn't seem to be connecting to my tivo's vserver. Tytools under wine does, but not VLC. vserver just sits there, waiting for a connection.

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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    don't know what to tell you Dromio, works flawlessly for me.
    Tytools uses tserver though not vserver.
    Make sure vserver is running.
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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    Quote Originally Posted by gunnyman
    don't know what to tell you Dromio, works flawlessly for me.
    Tytools uses tserver though not vserver.
    Make sure vserver is running.
    It looks to me like both of the files you linked unzip to make libty_plugin.so, just different revisions. Maybe there's a different link for one of the files?

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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    oh man you're right
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/t...r.bz2?download
    gets you the vstreamer module for VLC
    so sorry about that.
    I fixed it in my original post
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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    Quote Originally Posted by gunnyman
    oh man you're right
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/t...r.bz2?download
    gets you the vstreamer module for VLC
    so sorry about that.
    I fixed it in my original post
    Much better. I can get the plist now I can't test it for real until I get home though.

    Thanks. I'd tried to do this once before some time ago, but couldn't figure out where to put the vlc libraries.

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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    yeah me too, the new vstreamer module is very sweet too, the old one would segfault vlc 10 minutes into a show.
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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    Well, it's unwatchable with my AirNET (802.11b) tivo. Just not enough bandwidth to support the stream. Then again, I record everything in best quality-- that may have something to do with it.

    Oh well, it's a very nice hack. Makes me wish I'd worked harder and wired it with ethernet instead of taking the easy way out.

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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    works great with my Directivo
    I guess since the stream is compressed more on one of those I don't have any hiccups.
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    Re: HOWTO: stream Video from your hacked Tivo to your PC.

    There's also a patch for MPlayer to support this. (The streaming, that is -- the demuxing of Tivo streams has already made it into mainstream MPlayer.)

    http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/

    I'm not certain if it works with the latest versions of MPlayer. (I just keep a separate "mplayer-tivo" binary around.)

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