[Discuss] MythTV: from bad to worse. Start over?

[gboyce at badbelly.com (Gregory Boyce)]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 01:59:04PM -0500, Shirley M?rquez D?lcey wrote:
>> On 12/5/2011 11:08 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
>> >On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 09:40:50PM -0500, Rich Braun wrote:
>> >>What direction should I take now that I've really finally had *enough* of
>> >>MythTV?
>> >
>> >TiVo. ?It just bloody works, and very well at that, and I can say
>> >without reservation I've been a happy TiVo user for about 10 years or
>> >so. ?Yeah, you have to pay a subscription fee, but time is money, and
>> >all that time you spent messing with MythTV is worth something, too...
>>
>> TiVo won't do everything he wants. He also wants to be able to play
>> his backups of DVDs; TiVo won't do that.
>
>
> Sure it will. ?You can use TiVo Desktop to copy the backups back to
> TiVo. ?They do need to be in a supported format, so you may need to
> transcode them, and yes you do need to copy them, but it can be done.

pyTivo.  It will serve the files to your Tivo, transcoding your
content on the fly.

http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/PyTivo