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TiVo Video Extraction with Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the extract-me-with-the-network-of-love dept.

Arf4 writes "I recently published an article that describes extracting video from a TiVo Series 1 digital video recorder. I have been searching the boards for info on a Mac OS X solution, but came up blank. After experimenting with my iBook I figured out a way to do it. Using nothing more than a TiVo and Mac OS X (plus a few other free goodies), you can start backing up the latest Alias or Simpsons." Well, and a network card.

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  1. Build your own by Fished · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I looked at the whole Tivo thing, and came to the conclusion that I would be better served to build my own using a linux box and either mythtv or freevo. The box also doubles as my household server, uses a WinTV card and a Geforce 2 to do video, plays cd's, plays arcade games, plays dvd's, rips cd's, burns vcds, etc. Still working on the integration a bit, but so far it is very nice. And all for about the same price as the tivo hardware without the monthly service fee. (Although I could definitely use a larger hard drive at this point.)

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  2. No different... by duggy_92127 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is no different from how I've been doing it for a goodly while now on my Linux box. They've just compiled the tools for OS X, that's all.

    I'm working on a version of the tools that will show you the listing in your console, let you select a show, and will stream the .ty, translate to .mpeg on the fly, and then either save that stream or use something (mplayer, perhaps) to recode to another codec (DivX, anyone?).

    And it's written entirely in Perl, so it should run anywhere Perl does. If anybody's interested in looking at it, pop me an email; I'd be especially interested in hearing from people with knowledge of the MPEG2 format.

    Doug

  3. Re:Formac StudioDV/TV by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Whenever I need to get a file from my Tivo, I just use my digital camcorder to "read" my Tivo and "firewire" it to my Mac.

  4. Far more complicated than necessary by vincent99 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's how I extracted stuff 2 years ago, but it's far more complicated than necessary today; Get the MFSStream module for TiVoWeb, you click on a show and your browser downloads the tystream.

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