Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

[Kurt Granroth]

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 04:20 pm, sm wrote:
> Let's see if I remember this...
>
> A tivo box is basicaly a 60Mhz PPC running Linux with a couple proprietary
> modules for handling the MPEG equipment built into it.
>
> Am I right?

Basically, yes.  I was looking into the possibility of making something like 
that on my own with the addition of a DVD drive to play out of region DVDs 
and VCDs.  I was *very* discouraged at what could be done using Linux so far. 
 It appears that most of the "real" multimedia code that TiVo uses is 
proprietary.  The only way I could figure out how to make a PVR without 
spending hundreds of man-hours would be to use Windows + ShowShifter and the 
like.

'Course when I started figuring out all the costs, it came to about $450-500 
which was *so* not worth it.  So I bought a TiVo :-)
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