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
granroth@kde.org         | granroth@suse.com
            KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop