[rescue] TiVo Hack

[Brian Hechinger]

> Cool.  But the real question is, when will he be able to take streaming
> QT, Mpeg4 (of all MS and non MS variatties), and realmedia, and convert it
> for download to the TiVo?  

i think he already can, although i'd have to check.

> Bah.  Just run the the ethernet.  Currently I've run ethernet from my
> office to the guest room, my parents office, and the family
> room.  Currently, I want to replace the central hub, then also add
> ethernet to my bedroom.  There has been some discussion of ethernet in the
> kitchen and living room, but nothing definate yet.  Need to run speaker
> connections to the kitchen first.

it runs out of his office, through the hallway, down the stairs, across the
dining room, across the livingroom and into the tivo.  no other option without
fishing it through the walls which both he and i agreed would be a giant pain in
the ass, although it's whats gonna happen if he can't get this wireless card
working.  he plugged it into his server and so far

a) it doesn't work
b) he rebooted his server when i was there and the card hung linux

so it's not looking so good if he can't even get it to work in a normal PC what
are his chances of getting it to work in a tivo. :)

> Yeah, but where are the docs on doing that?

donno, just came with the web server i guess.

i don't know anything about any of this, other than what was demonstrated to me
over the weekend.  i like this network thing, and i'm going to have to research
it further and see if i can get the tivo to use the NFS mount full time.  i
don't know if this is a good idea or not, since his NFS mount kept hanging, but
on the other hand something ran away on his linux server which was showing a
load average of 12, so that could have been the problem as well (he's a 
developer, not an admin, so his solution was to reboot the linux server before
i could poke at it to see what happened *G*)

anyway, i'll talk to him and see if i can get any info out of him (he's easier
to understand in email since he can stop and think about what he's saying 
instead of just rambling/mumbling/stuttering, so i'll let you know.)

-brian

ps: moved to geeks since i think we are stretching rescue here on this one now.