[ExtractStream] MFSTools restore/ExtractStream fixed!

[Chris Kloiber]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Ken Hancock wrote:

> 
> Finally figured out what the problem is & patched my copy of ES3. Thanks to 
> Gary Williams for pointing out the "od" linux command which allowed me to 
> dump the first 512 bytes of /dev/hda10.
> 
> The problem (for me) was MFS Tools restore was putting something ? in 
> /dev/hda12 which wasn't MFS media which was throwing out the sector 
> count. On my MFS Tools restored disk, my media regions are /dev/hda10, 
> /dev/hda11, /dev/hdb2, and /deb/hdb3.
> 
> I'd like to propose to Dale & Keary (and anyone else maintaining a version of 
> ExtractStream) is to modify it in one of the following ways:
> 
> 
> 1. Modify ExtractStream to grab the list of MFS media regions from the block 
> header in /dev/hda10 (best and automatically works for all configs). (I'm not 
> a unix hacker, so I don't know exactly how to read X bytes from the first 
> sector of /dev/hda10, but I'll be happy to assist...)

# dd if=/dev/hda10 of=<filename> count=1 bs=<#_of_bytes_needed>

The dd command works on my TiVo, too.

> or
> 
> 2. Change the "devs" array in ExtractStream.c to be a static structure which 
> can be modified by inserting multiple "-d /dev/hdX" into the command-line 
> arguments. This would allow anyone to provide a list of devices to read 
> in-order.
> 
> Dale and/or Keary -- does this sound reasonable to you? Would you be 
> willing to do the fixes?
> 
> Ken

Has anyone here seen the ffmpeg/ffserver programs, and can extractstream 
be used as a feed for the ffserver? 

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCE