Tivo - The spiffy Linux Box

[Dan Aldrich]

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.

-d

At 11:44 PM 8/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Even if you don't buy the ethernet, there is a serial port out the back of
>it and it also has PPP on the drive already so you can easily setup a
>115,200 connection to another machine.  It's not blazing fast, but it gets
>stuff on and off it.
>The serial port is supposed to be used for controlling a satelite reciever
>like direct TV.  I just for direct TV myself and it really works well with
>the Tivo.  I just plugged the serial port into the back of the box and
>then threw the box behind my TV.  You can't even see it at all, and it
>made it so that I didn't have to clear out room in my already over packed
>entertainment center/place/thingy/shelf/whatever.