Directivo, TivoNET, and ExtractStream

[nickhull@y...]

> 
> I believe (from what I've gathered) that DirecTV broadcasts in MPEG-
2, with macrovision encoding. But from what I've read, the 
macrovision encoding is stripped, and then the MPEG-2 is saved 
directly to the drive.
> 
> Not sure what the ExtractStream software is meant to handle, but I 
thought the SA TiVOs used MPEG-2 as well.
> 
> --Eric

It's very likely that the DirectTivo streams could be extracted in a 
similar fashion to SA. However, you will not catch me writing code 
for this - and I would say that anyone who releases such code is a 
fool waiting for a lawsuit.

As it stands, the ExtractStream/mplex combination will not work with 
the DirectTivo. There are several issues that will make it fail. 
Please discover for yourself what these issues are, I have no desire 
to assist in that effort.

Nick