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Re: [svlug] 20/20 on Hans Reiser tonight



 Good God, we do all go to a lot of trouble to watch TV, don't we? 

Nathan 


John Abreau wrote: 
> I wasn't using those; I was using Tivo Extractor on MacOSX. 
> It's the only tool I've found that lets me queue a list of streams 
> to download automatically. 
> 
> I've had no luck getting wget or curl to download the streams, 
> and the only other way I've been able to download them is 
> by manually clicking on them in firefox. 
> 
> Last night I checked the preferences in Tivo Extractor, and 
> I changed it to save the plain mpeg2 stream without transcoding. 
> The results were properly synced, but the file is 1.6GB for 
> a 1-hour stream. 
> 
> If I have time over the weekend, I'll try ffmpeg and mencoder 
> to see if they give decent results. I suppose I can also bring 
> a copy of the 1.6GB file to the Installfest on Saturday, if that 
> helps. 
> 
> 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>   
>> On 11/6/07, John Abreau <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>   
>>     
>>>  I have that 20/20 episode recorded on a Tivo Series 2, but when 
>>>  I tested the video extraction results last night, I found that the 
>>>  transcoder didn't sync the audio and video correctly. 
>>> 
>>>  So it's not much use until I find a better transcoder to decode 
>>>  the encrypted .tivo files to a properly synced mpeg file. 
>>>     
>>>       
>> mencoder or ffmpeg didn't work?  Maybe try this tool under wine... 
>> http://le.org/vault/tivo/tivo2mpeg.html
>>   
>>     
> 
>   


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