[ExtractStream] Every other FSID is bad?

[Chris Kloiber]

On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 17:11, jeremyjgordonhome wrote:
> 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.

On virgin units either hda4 or hda7 has never been formatted, so it
won't mount. Edit the install scripts to detect the mount failure and
just ignore that partition. It will get formatted for you next time TiVo
upgrades their software.

(snip)

> 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.

Ohhh.. Could you please tell me how to get the cross compiler working?
If you know how, maybe make an RPM package that just works?

> 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.

I wish there was an easy way to extract and convert to SVCD on Linux.

> 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).

See above.

-- 
Chris Kloiber