I was just going to post this to the
Turbonet bulk buy list only, but in view of the
increased
uptake of the Tivo due to the Powerhouse deal, I
thought I’d share with the rest of the
group:
Just to wet your appetites prior to
the
arrival of the TurboNet cards I’ve now got
the
following utilities working on my TiVo:
TivoWeb: Brilliant mini web server allowing you to access the program
details of programs recorded on the Tivo. Delete
recordings and review suggestions via browser. Mount file systems. Control
your
Tivo via a graphical representation of the Peanut
via
a browser.
TyTools4: Excellent video extraction
utility written by one of our
US cousins. Up till a few days ago this didn’t support UK
Tivos but the guy has now released a version for UK
Tystreams. Allows you to review
programs
recorded on the Tivo via a PC client and extract
the
Video and Audio streams to your PC in a single point and click
operation.
Mind you the muxing of the separate streams into
a
standard mpeg file is a bit of a pigs ear at the
minute requiring various other mpeg utiliies but
is achievable
and gives surprisingly good results. The TyTools
guy
is looking at including the muxing into the TyTools app in a future release which will be a
godsend.
Merge.tcl: Another invaluable tool only just released. This little
beauty allows
you to select and tag multiple programs via the standard TiVo
interface using the normal Remote and “Save to VCR” the
multiple
selections in a single operation. Currently, TiVo
only allows you to save a single program to VCR at any one time. I don’t know about you but
SWMBO
requests loads of programmes eg
“The Operation” – don’t ask? but
never seems to watch them. I don’t want to go to the effort of video
extraction for this type of stuff, I just want it
off
my Tivo. For example, I can now select 4 separate
1
hour episodes of her favourite progs
and dump them to a four hour tape overnight. The script even puts the
multiple
titles in the Header Screen. SWMBO isn’t bothered about VCR quality
(and
besides which she’ll probably never watch them) and they can be
archived to
tidy up my Tivo menus. Hey, when I get a
recordable
DVD, I’ll just dump them to that J
Cheers
Don