Every other FSID is bad?

[jeremyjgordonhome]

Hi all,

I've got a brand new, virgin 30 hour Sony SVR2000 (with 2.5.1 
software on it) which I installed TiVoNet in (haven't yet upgraded 
the HD or anything like that yet). First off, the install scripts 
failed, and I could never get /dev/hdX4 to mount correctly under any 
of the boot disks or boot CD's.

I did manage to install the TiVoNet files on /dev/hdX7 successfully 
(but never /dev/hdX4), and then get tivoweb-tcl up and running, as 
well as SplitStream 0.5, and the utilities from the ZIP file on 
JoeBoxer's page (modified httpd.tcl, nc, etc).

I can succesfully use these utilities to extract the data of some of 
the FSID's listed in my NowShowing list, but several fail signature 
check and can't be extracted (usually every other one in the 
sequence for a particular show).

I have also successfully used TivoApp and tyConvert, but I have the 
same problem; the first FSID for a given show works, but after that 
several other ones fail to transfer (and looking in the telnet 
window it shows fail signature checking, fail sector, etc).

The video that does extract (either split streams, or tyConvert 
single streams) plays back great in WindowsXP MediaPlayer, and I've 
sucessfully encoded, burned and watched an SVCD using TMPGEnc and my 
Pioneer DVD player (an SVCD of the first part of a show, since some 
FSID's fail to be read from the TiVo).

I am using WindowsXP, but I have RedHat 7.0 Linux installed in 
VMWare, and after a bit of configure/makefile tweaking I finally got 
GCC 2.8.1 TiVo cross compiling built and setup (from 
tridge.samba.org). I cut and pasted some code from ExtractStream 
into my own program to print out the get_tyStream... stuff, and like 
ExtractStream and SplitStream it also fails to extract many of my 
FSID's.

Am I missing something? It almost sounds like stuff where people 
say to "skip sectors", but I thought that was in the post processing 
steps on the Win32 side; I'm having problems on the TiVo itself, as 
it's trying to locate/extract/copy the raw data from /dev/hdX10.

Ultimately, my plan is to write a "StreamServer" application (in 
C/C++, not TCL) for the TiVo so that an Adobe Premier or TMPGEnc 
plugin that I write can communicate with it over TCP/IP and 
request/get data directly from the TiVo to encode. At the moment 
though, it seems I can't get the basics working with existing 
software.

At first I thought maybe it was because I was recording in "High 
Quality" and not "Best Quality", but I have the same problems either 
way. I also thought maybe I had the whole "Space Saving" or VBR 
mode on, but that's not on either.

Any pointers would be much appreciated (even to why /dev/hdX4 fails 
to mount).

Regards,

Jeremy