Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

[Brian Cluff]

> > http: www.tivo.com...
>
> ahhh... now I know what tivo is (since I read on and looked at the
> company URL).  So now I'm missing what this has to do with Linux.

The TIVO runs linux and does all its magic with it.... complete with a lot
of their software opensourced,  not enough to actually make your own for
free, but enough so that people are doing all sorts of cool hacks of them
like upgrading the storage size like I have done and adding ethernet
capability along with web servers so you can actually get into the unit and
play around with its guide information.  They even have the capability to
download the MPEG files directly off the hard drive and play them back on
any PC.

The machine itself is a fairly standard Power PC machine with some custom
MPEG compression/decompression hardware onboard with no mocing parts other
than the hard drive and one cooling fan that only comes on if the unit
starts to overheat, which from my experience is never.

Brian Cluff