The transfer time from the tivo to the desktop is ungodly for being just 1 GB for a 1 hour show. I assume this is due to the media partition being encrypted and has to decrypt to an encrypted.tivo file on the way to the desktop.
The.tivo file is encrypted on your PC. I think Tivo2go rocks! I get about 3 gig an hour transfer rate.
The setup is a wired connection and a Linksys USB200M adapter on the Tivo. The Tivo is a standard 60 hour Tivo brand series 2. In case you can't find it elsewhere the Linksys USB200M is available at the Tivo online store for $29.99. Big files like wires. A two hour movie at medium quality (3 gig) transfers in about 1 hour.
If I want to remove commercials I do best quality recording and use Sonic. Takes about 10 minutes of my time per hour of show to delete commercials. Processing takes about 2.5 hours per hour of show.
If I don't care about removing commercials there is a fast way to make a DVD:
1. Medium quality recording. That way the MPEG file is an acceptable resolution for step 3
2. TVHarmony to convert to MPEG
3. Sony DVD architect (other DVD software might work) to create the DVD
It doesn't re-encode the video so the quality is about as good as the best quality/Sonic solution above. It does have to re-encode the audio but that only takes like 30 minutes for a 2 hour movie. I could take commercials out in the DVD software but it's a pain. DVD players have fast forward.
One thing I found to be an issue was trying to start transferring a show that recorded and was playing but paused on the Tivo. It wouldn't work. Just go back to the now playing menu, start the transfer then back to watching the show. By the time you are done watching it's transferred.
Myth, etc sound nice but try to train your wife to use them.
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The best reason to know vi is that it is unsually installed on every UNIX box. It is a hoot to see someone who doesn't know vi working on a system that doesn't have emacs do cat >file
I consider myself rather techie being a senior UNIX admin for a living but Tivo is just too easy. I have better things to do with my time. I also have a wife who doesn't have to ask questions about using Tivo. Occassionly she asks me to save a show to DVD which is outside her skill set.
With Tivo to Go I can make DVDs of my favorite shows easily. I can even remove the commercials using Sonic MyDVD (that is designed to work with Tivo) from a one hour show by hand (accurately vs automated crap) in about 10 minutes.
It's simple, it only crashes or screws up about once every six months and it just works.
We did this at work in like 1993 with all three PCs - left, front and right. It was like Doom 1.something. Darn cool for that time period. The game started running slower and slower. Then the computer support line (which we were responsible for answering) rang with people unable to work due to the network being bogged down.
Then there is always the having good software issue...
Two guy I work with have a kids who are involved with other 4th and 5th graders doing a club thing with Mindstorms. One guy had me redo an unused five year old laptop from Win2K (which it came with) down to Win98. This is because he heard the software (even the newer version) works best under Win98. Most of my web searches seemed to confirm this information.
If it doesn't work well under XP, which comes on almost every new PC, you aren't going to get a lot of good "word of mouth" advertising.
We had an administrative assistant to a second level manager who would send out a 2 megabyte, one slide Powerpoint to invite us to the department group meetings. One day I got one and a thought popped into my head: "No amount of formatting can make up for your lack of content".
When I read: The author suggests commuting the idea of a death sentence into a lifetime of servitude doing viral cleanup.
It made me think of the original Star Trek and the guy who had to pick up all the tribbles on the space station for the next 17.9 or do 20 years in prison. I wonder if that's where he got the idea.
One of his questions was backing up DV files over the size of a DVD. I use Winrar (you could use Winzip) to break the big files down into smaller chunks. I set it to 1,125,000,000 and four files fit nicely on a DVD. It takes 3 DVDs to back up one hour of DV video.
There is concern about how long DVDs last. I assume name brand DVDs should last at least four years. By then technology should have changed and I can move them to something larger and faster. If things aren't better copy them to new media and get more years.
For the truly paraniod make multiple copies, verify them in another drive and send a copy offsite.
When Enron wanted me to move to Houston from my home town so I turned them down. That was six months before the collapse. I think I made the right call. The people I worked with who moved regretted it.
They pay you to relocate but then you are stuck there.
I saw a few negative comments about Tivo to Go so I wanted to share my positive experience. I have been working on making DVDs not viewing on the computer.
Slow transfers: I have installed the approved Linksys M200 USB wired network adapter. Transferring shows takes about 2/3 of the time of the show's length when recorded at high quality. My hub says it's at 100mbits. Bored during transfers? Go watch the Tivo! You can start a bunch of stuff transferring and go got bed.
This is what I do that produces pretty good results by going with the flow a bit:
Stop being a cheap ass and buy the dang Sonic software. The $50 version works just fine. You will spend that much on blank DVDs and Tivo service in no time. It's not the best DVD authoring software but once you set up the project it goes all by itself in one long, slow step (about 1.5 times show length on my Barton 2600) without user intervention. No screwing around with 27 painful steps to remove DRM, etc. With Sonic you can easily hack out the commercials in minutes. You can always leave commercials in and fast forward the DVD.
Record on the Tivo at high or best quality.
When making the DVD don't try to put more than an hour on a 4.7G DVD. Use the "fit to DVD" or High quality option. If you want to do a movie make two DVDs until dual layer media gets reasonable. There is an encoding quality option you need to turn up in the Sonic software that takes more time and increases quality.
Even if you record something on the Tivo at basic quality and it isn't repeated so you can turn up the quality if you follow the above one hour per DVD rule it's still kicks butt over dump to even slow play VHS tape.
The end result is not as good as a store bought DVD but then again the current season of the Simpsons isn't due out on DVD anytime soon.
For our friends who like to share: Once it's on a DVD there isn't any DVD copy protection. You can make copies of the DVD. I haven't tried it but you should be able to make an ISO or Nero image and have your fun.
I met Gordo in July 2001 when he visted Rocket Guy.
http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket/jul172001.html
He was a fasinating person and still had a sparkle in his eye when talking about the old days. Even got to go to lunch with him when the TV crew took him to lunch. I miss the good old days when we had heroes like him.
There is a sequel to the fine cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and it's called "Shock Treatment".
Since we enjoying the orignal so much a friend and I rented it. It was almost physically painful as we got closer and closer to the end hoping it would end soon. But no! It dragged on and on.
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I agree with the comment "some cars are designed to be chipped". Many cars are "dumbed down" for import into the USA. German cars were designed for the Autobahn.
I have an old 86 Audi Quattro that I bought cheap over 2 years ago and had chipped for the fun of it. Turbo boost went from 4 pounds to 10 pounds. Accelerate up a big hill at 4000 feet elevation at 100 MPG? No problemo.
It weighs 3300 lbs. I get 20 MPG in town, 28 MPG on the road and breeze through emission testing at 1/4 the requirement. Just turned over 212K miles on the original engine.
I used a technique like this to do a web cam way back in 1997 before web cams were an easy thing to do. I was supporting Silicon Graphics workstations at the time. One of the models came with a digital camera. The cameras did not have automatic exposure.
Using CGI as the user hit the web page it took pictures at different shutter speeds. Working up from the slowest shutter speed the first JPG over 20K bytes was the right exposure and was shown on the page.
Having this system demonstrated was something you can't really describe. It was a similar sound to mono headphones but had a way different feeling. Without anything on your head or in your ears the sound was coming from inside my head. Truly a strange feeling.
There are many saying how it's an invasion of personal space, etc. Talking to the people who presented it they pointed out how a loudspeaker blares out over a large area. This system would be projected only in the area near a vending machine, store front window display, TV screen in a store, etc.
In a store with a lot of TV screens hawking different products each one would have it's "sound zone" which you could easily leave.
Re:kinda neat, butt...
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When they set up the public flight simulators at "The Magic Edge" (now Fightertown http://www.fightertown.com/ ) in Silicon Vally someone thought they should put mechanical limitations on the "cockpit pods" that moved around several feet. The software guys said it wasn't needed. After a pod crashed into the ceiling during testing they added hardware stops.
A friend of mine has a IMow. It's cute to watch but takes a long time. His lawn at about 2000 square feet is about half the size of mine. His IMow took almost three hours to do the job. He still had to manually hit a few spots it missed.
My non-self propelled gas mower takes me about 25 minutes. Plus I get a little exercise to boot.
When I worked at Enron Broadband Services doing second level support for bandwidth trading it was one percent of Enron's business. I don't think it brought Enron down.
The patch to fix the IRIX problem was included in the standard IRIX maintenance patches that were released 18 months ago. I would hope if someone had a system on the internet they would patch it more often than every 18 months.
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My brother is 51 and has been getting accupuncture for his arthritis. He swears by it. If you have tried everything else it couldn't hurt.
The .tivo file is encrypted on your PC. I think Tivo2go rocks! I get about 3 gig an hour transfer rate.
The setup is a wired connection and a Linksys USB200M adapter on the Tivo. The Tivo is a standard 60 hour Tivo brand series 2. In case you can't find it elsewhere the Linksys USB200M is available at the Tivo online store for $29.99. Big files like wires. A two hour movie at medium quality (3 gig) transfers in about 1 hour.
If I want to remove commercials I do best quality recording and use Sonic. Takes about 10 minutes of my time per hour of show to delete commercials. Processing takes about 2.5 hours per hour of show.
If I don't care about removing commercials there is a fast way to make a DVD:
1. Medium quality recording. That way the MPEG file is an acceptable resolution for step 3
2. TVHarmony to convert to MPEG
3. Sony DVD architect (other DVD software might work) to create the DVD
It doesn't re-encode the video so the quality is about as good as the best quality/Sonic solution above. It does have to re-encode the audio but that only takes like 30 minutes for a 2 hour movie. I could take commercials out in the DVD software but it's a pain. DVD players have fast forward.
One thing I found to be an issue was trying to start transferring a show that recorded and was playing but paused on the Tivo. It wouldn't work. Just go back to the now playing menu, start the transfer then back to watching the show. By the time you are done watching it's transferred. Myth, etc sound nice but try to train your wife to use them.
The best reason to know vi is that it is unsually installed on every UNIX box. It is a hoot to see someone who doesn't know vi working on a system that doesn't have emacs do cat >file
I consider myself rather techie being a senior UNIX admin for a living but Tivo is just too easy. I have better things to do with my time. I also have a wife who doesn't have to ask questions about using Tivo. Occassionly she asks me to save a show to DVD which is outside her skill set.
With Tivo to Go I can make DVDs of my favorite shows easily. I can even remove the commercials using Sonic MyDVD (that is designed to work with Tivo) from a one hour show by hand (accurately vs automated crap) in about 10 minutes.
It's simple, it only crashes or screws up about once every six months and it just works.
We did this at work in like 1993 with all three PCs - left, front and right. It was like Doom 1.something. Darn cool for that time period. The game started running slower and slower. Then the computer support line (which we were responsible for answering) rang with people unable to work due to the network being bogged down.
Dang them IPX broadcast packets on 10baseT!
Then there is always the having good software issue...
Two guy I work with have a kids who are involved with other 4th and 5th graders doing a club thing with Mindstorms. One guy had me redo an unused five year old laptop from Win2K (which it came with) down to Win98. This is because he heard the software (even the newer version) works best under Win98. Most of my web searches seemed to confirm this information.
If it doesn't work well under XP, which comes on almost every new PC, you aren't going to get a lot of good "word of mouth" advertising.
We had an administrative assistant to a second level manager who would send out a 2 megabyte, one slide Powerpoint to invite us to the department group meetings. One day I got one and a thought popped into my head:
"No amount of formatting can make up for your lack of content".
It would be nice if they put some of their resources into fixing problems with Tivo2Go that make it almost useless instead of new features:h p?t=228168&page=2&pp=30
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.p
When I read:
b bles
The author suggests commuting the idea of a death sentence into a lifetime of servitude doing viral cleanup.
It made me think of the original Star Trek and the guy who had to pick up all the tribbles on the space station for the next 17.9 or do 20 years in prison. I wonder if that's where he got the idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Tri
One of his questions was backing up DV files over the size of a DVD. I use Winrar (you could use Winzip) to break the big files down into smaller chunks. I set it to 1,125,000,000 and four files fit nicely on a DVD. It takes 3 DVDs to back up one hour of DV video.
There is concern about how long DVDs last. I assume name brand DVDs should last at least four years. By then technology should have changed and I can move them to something larger and faster. If things aren't better copy them to new media and get more years.
For the truly paraniod make multiple copies, verify them in another drive and send a copy offsite.
When Enron wanted me to move to Houston from my home town so I turned them down. That was six months before the collapse. I think I made the right call.
The people I worked with who moved regretted it.
They pay you to relocate but then you are stuck there.
I saw a few negative comments about Tivo to Go so I wanted to share my positive experience. I have been working on making DVDs not viewing on the computer.
Slow transfers:
I have installed the approved Linksys M200 USB wired network adapter. Transferring shows takes about 2/3 of the time of the show's length when recorded at high quality. My hub says it's at 100mbits. Bored during transfers? Go watch the Tivo! You can start a bunch of stuff transferring and go got bed.
This is what I do that produces pretty good results by going with the flow a bit:
Stop being a cheap ass and buy the dang Sonic software. The $50 version works just fine. You will spend that much on blank DVDs and Tivo service in no time. It's not the best DVD authoring software but once you set up the project it goes all by itself in one long, slow step (about 1.5 times show length on my Barton 2600) without user intervention. No screwing around with 27 painful steps to remove DRM, etc. With Sonic you can easily hack out the commercials in minutes. You can always leave commercials in and fast forward the DVD.
Record on the Tivo at high or best quality.
When making the DVD don't try to put more than an hour on a 4.7G DVD. Use the "fit to DVD" or High quality option. If you want to do a movie make two DVDs until dual layer media gets reasonable. There is an encoding quality option you need to turn up in the Sonic software that takes more time and increases quality.
Even if you record something on the Tivo at basic quality and it isn't repeated so you can turn up the quality if you follow the above one hour per DVD rule it's still kicks butt over dump to even slow play VHS tape.
The end result is not as good as a store bought DVD but then again the current season of the Simpsons isn't due out on DVD anytime soon.
For our friends who like to share:
Once it's on a DVD there isn't any DVD copy protection. You can make copies of the DVD. I haven't tried it but you should be able to make an ISO or Nero image and have your fun.
I met Gordo in July 2001 when he visted Rocket Guy. http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket/jul172001.html He was a fasinating person and still had a sparkle in his eye when talking about the old days. Even got to go to lunch with him when the TV crew took him to lunch. I miss the good old days when we had heroes like him.
There is a sequel to the fine cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and it's called "Shock Treatment".
Since we enjoying the orignal so much a friend and I rented it. It was almost physically painful as we got closer and closer to the end hoping it would end soon. But no! It dragged on and on.
Arcnet was a whopping 2.5mbits not 4mbits. I worked on some in the early 90's.
A quick google search for:
arcnet glossary
Arcnet
I agree with the comment "some cars are designed to be chipped". Many cars are "dumbed down" for import into the USA. German cars were designed for the Autobahn.
I have an old 86 Audi Quattro that I bought cheap over 2 years ago and had chipped for the fun of it. Turbo boost went from 4 pounds to 10 pounds. Accelerate up a big hill at 4000 feet elevation at 100 MPG? No problemo.
It weighs 3300 lbs. I get 20 MPG in town, 28 MPG on the road and breeze through emission testing at 1/4 the requirement. Just turned over 212K miles on the original engine.
Many Audi owners have chipped without problems.
Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd. All rights reserved throughout the world.
It's propaganda plain and simple.
Can't remeber ASCII codes?
Try typing this at a Linux command prompt
man ascii
If you can convert 4 bits to hex it's all down hill from there.
Using CGI as the user hit the web page it took pictures at different shutter speeds. Working up from the slowest shutter speed the first JPG over 20K bytes was the right exposure and was shown on the page.
There are many saying how it's an invasion of personal space, etc. Talking to the people who presented it they pointed out how a loudspeaker blares out over a large area. This system would be projected only in the area near a vending machine, store front window display, TV screen in a store, etc.
In a store with a lot of TV screens hawking different products each one would have it's "sound zone" which you could easily leave.
When they set up the public flight simulators at "The Magic Edge" (now Fightertown http://www.fightertown.com/ ) in Silicon Vally someone thought they should put mechanical limitations on the "cockpit pods" that moved around several feet. The software guys said it wasn't needed. After a pod crashed into the ceiling during testing they added hardware stops.
A friend of mine has a IMow. It's cute to watch but takes a long time. His lawn at about 2000 square feet is about half the size of mine. His IMow took almost three hours to do the job. He still had to manually hit a few spots it missed.
My non-self propelled gas mower takes me about 25 minutes. Plus I get a little exercise to boot.
When I worked at Enron Broadband Services doing second level support for bandwidth trading it was one percent of Enron's business. I don't think it brought Enron down.
The patch to fix the IRIX problem was included in the standard IRIX maintenance patches that were released 18 months ago. I would hope if someone had a system on the internet they would patch it more often than every 18 months.
It's kinda funny when I get jokes emailed to me that I first saw on a BBS in the mid-late 80's.