Comments on: TiVo + Home Media Option + Email

By: Qegydhau

Qegydhau — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:00:31 +0000

Thanks!,

By: me

me — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Does anyone else cringe when they see paths containing things like “C:” and “D:”? When is Windows going to step into the 1980s and drop CP/M?

By: Dan Isaacs

Dan Isaacs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Be careful what you wish for. I’m content to deal with C:\ from a company that put home directories in a folder called “Documents and Settings”.

By: Randal L. Schwartz

Randal L. Schwartz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It might have been interesting to convert the email to audio using Festival, and then listening to your email instead of looking at it!

By: emory

emory — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You could do that, too, Randal. Take Festival output, convert to mp3, listen on the TiVo.

Interesting idea.

By: temp1234

temp1234 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wouldn’t it be possible to use the Tivo Broadcast protocol to write an app which “pretends” it’s a Tivo DVR and initiate “copy” m2v files from a Tivo DVR unit? I guess which I’m trying to say is that this copy from one room to another idea is nothing more than 2 DVRs exchanging files. This one, one does not have to “hack” / “open” a Tivo unit and bastardize the Linux logon in order to get the m2v files off of a DVR unit. I’m not expert but would that work?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I love the idea of emulating a Tivo. I think that aside from ripping the files from the Tivo, you could basically create a very nice “media center.” HMO already allows you to send images and mp3s. I would kill for the ability to stream video (Divx or mpeg2) to the Tivo and be able to watch it on my TV. Once that’s accomplished i’m definetly buying HMO. BTW, if anyone knows how to do this already, PLEASE drop me an e-mail (jmg352@stern.nyu.edu)

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Only problem with the idea of emulating the tvbus protocol is the fact that the existing DVR(s) will only send messages (other than the initial announcement) to a DVR it has been told uses the home media option. IE: When you purchase the option for a DVR it is sent information on all DVR(s) in the LAN thet have been authorised to receive content. If you throw together a server which announces itself as a DVR and send it any tvbus messages, you will get the standard “Not an Authorized DVR message every time.” This happens in either direction since both ends must be authenticated before transactions can proceed.

By: cejay

cejay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can someone help me with the script above? I looked for GD and installed every GD module I saw.. and the script dies looking for GD.pm / i dloaded the pkg again via the internet, but am not sure how to get it installed in the right dirs.. I also didnt see a file called MAIL-INTERNET on the search with ppm.
help
cj

By: cejay

cejay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

ok.. i found gd.pm finally.. now i cant find mail/internet.pm dont see it on ppm.. and am going to hunt on google.com now for it.. ideas?