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"Albert Santoni" <GameGod@sympatico.ca> writes:

> Hey everyone,
>
> There's been some chitchat about this mystical MythTivo. Can anyone fill me
> in?
> (Man, maybe I really SHOULD upgrade to the cvs version...)

Take a look at:

http://tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net/

It basically lets you stream programs from a networked tivo to a Myth frontend.

Matt

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Okay - Since I've just gotten it running, all I can say is,
"WWWOOOOWWWWW!!!!"

Ahem.

Basically, it's another module for MythTV that allows you to watch shows
off of your tivo. Or multiple Tivos... ;)

(You'll need MythTV 0.8 to build it though, as it won't compile with the
CVS version that I downloaded yesterday.)

It connects to your Tivo, retrieves the "Now Showing" list, and, with
the aid of a specially hacked version of mplayer (available at
tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net) lets you watch the Tivo shows on your
MythTV.

In order to build it, I was lucky in that I had the atrpms installed for
0.8, so it could reference /usr/include/mythtv instead of my
cvs-installed /usr/local/include/mythtv headers.

What does this make possible? Well, you could have both the Tivo and
MythTV record scrambled-channel shows (with separate cable boxes, of
course) and watch them all through the MythTv.

-Ian

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:03, Albert Santoni wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> There's been some chitchat about this mystical MythTivo. Can anyone fill me
> in?
> (Man, maybe I really SHOULD upgrade to the cvs version...)
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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__________________________________
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CYTBeN, Inc.
ian@duckland.org / ian@cytben.com

You can use mythTV as a descrambler?? how (?)

-dane

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Forde" <ian@duckland.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTivo? What'd I miss?


> Okay - Since I've just gotten it running, all I can say is,
> "WWWOOOOWWWWW!!!!"
>
> Ahem.
>
> Basically, it's another module for MythTV that allows you to watch shows
> off of your tivo. Or multiple Tivos... ;)
>
> (You'll need MythTV 0.8 to build it though, as it won't compile with the
> CVS version that I downloaded yesterday.)
>
> It connects to your Tivo, retrieves the "Now Showing" list, and, with
> the aid of a specially hacked version of mplayer (available at
> tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net) lets you watch the Tivo shows on your
> MythTV.
>
> In order to build it, I was lucky in that I had the atrpms installed for
> 0.8, so it could reference /usr/include/mythtv instead of my
> cvs-installed /usr/local/include/mythtv headers.
>
> What does this make possible? Well, you could have both the Tivo and
> MythTV record scrambled-channel shows (with separate cable boxes, of
> course) and watch them all through the MythTv.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:03, Albert Santoni wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > There's been some chitchat about this mystical MythTivo. Can anyone fill
me
> > in?
> > (Man, maybe I really SHOULD upgrade to the cvs version...)
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> --
> __________________________________
> Ian Forde, RHCE, CCSE, SCNA, SCDME
> CYTBeN, Inc.
> ian@duckland.org / ian@cytben.com
>
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> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 14:07, Dane Kantner wrote:
> You can use mythTV as a descrambler?? how (?)

No no no no nooo... ;) I meant that you can have a cable box sitting
behind your MythTV and another one behind your Tivo. The Tivo will use
its IR blaster (or serial port, if you've got it configured). The
MythTV will use its IR blaster for its cable box (or serial port if I
can ever get the d*mned thing sniffed). Thus, both the Tivo and the
MythTV can get channels like HBO and record shows from them. Then from
the MythTV you can watch shows from both itself *and* the Tivo. ;)

-I
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__________________________________
Ian Forde, RHCE, CCSE, SCNA, SCDME
CYTBeN, Inc.
ian@duckland.org / ian@cytben.com