[OT] Re: Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

[Dan Aldrich]

At 08:47 AM 8/23/01 -0700, you wrote:
Way cool. So it's already in SVCD format.

How about the guide service, do you have to subscribe to that to get a Tivo to work, or is that just a convenience?

-d
>On Thursday 23 August 2001 05:41 am, Dan Aldrich wrote:
>> How are the recordings stored on Tivo? Are they MPEGs or some proprietary
>> format? That would make the Tivo very usefull; record the shows, edit out
>> the commercials, convert to SVCD then burn a disk.
>
>They are stored as MPEG2.  What you are describing is very possible... see 
>this page for more info on it:
>
>http://tweek.wojo.com/tivo/
>
>Other links of interest:
>
>http://www.tivocommunity.com
>http://tivo.samba.org (best tivo hack site, imo)
>-- 
>Kurt Granroth            | http://www.granroth.org
>KDE Developer/Evangelist | SuSE Labs Open Source Developer
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