[OT] Re: Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

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Author: Kurt Granroth
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Subject: [OT] Re: Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box
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)
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