Extract Stream broken inquiry

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David,

Hope this helps....

I have a UK Tivo with 1.5.2/TivoNet and I have the same problem with 
using ExactStream to create separate Video and Audio Streams directly 
from the Tivo.

However, I am one of the lucky individuals who has an original one 
drive UK Tivo and while I made an mfs backup before I added a second 
drive, I have never restored my Tivo.

I have had some sucess with creating a usable video file as follows:

1. Use the httpd.tcl web server supplied with ExtractStream0.2. 
2. You will need to edit this httpd.tcl for a UK?/1.5.2? tivo or it 
will just produce a blank page when the "Now showing" link is 
clicked. The changes you need to make is as follows:
a. Find the procedure "action_NowShowing"
b. About four lines into this procedure you will see the line:
ForeachMfsFile fsid name type "/Recording/NowShowing" "" {
Change this to read:
ForeachMfsFile fsid name type "/Recording/Complete" "" {
2. Transfer the updated httpd.tcl to your Tivo, taking care not to 
cause a problem with end of line <CR> characters - i.e. do a ascii 
FTP file transfer.
3. Start httpd.tcl on th tivo in background with "./httpd.tcl &"
4. Point your web browser at your Tivo's IP number and click the now 
showing link - it should produce a now showing list. DON'T CLICK ON 
THE LINKS FOR EACH PROGRAMME YET.
5. When you click on one of the links the Tivo will begin streaming 
the raw (audio+video) stream to your web browser which is likely to 
cause your web browser to croak. You need to do something like right 
click on the link and choose "save as...". Take care though, IE has 
a habit of adding an HTML header to whatever it saves - make sure its 
a text or raw download. I use a download manager - getright - to do 
this.
6. You should now have a ***large*** raw stream file on your PC and 
need to break this into its Audio + Video components. The only was I 
have suceeded in doing this is to use ConvertStream on a linux PC. I 
used vmware to create virtual linux PC under windows so I didn't need 
to copy the file to another machine or dual boot - but any linux 
machine will do. EVERY OTHER WAY I HAVE TRIED TO DEMUX THE RAW STREAM 
HAS FAILED - including ExtractStream on the Tivo and TivoApp.exe 
under Windows.
7. All being well you now have two separate files and they should 
play in Windows Media Player (if you have the right codecs).

Anyone do better -or- explain why by both ExtractStream and TivoApp 
won't demux Audio and Video from UK 1.5.2 Tivo's?

Graham

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "David Black" <dblack1@b...> wrote:
> ExtractStream doesn't work on my UK 1.5.2 tivo
> 
> I haven't used mfs tools but I did restore a single drive image 
using dd
> and then add a second drive
> 
> ExtractStream pulls off the audio but not the video :-(
> 
> 
> David
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hancock [mailto:hancockks@y...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:15 AM
> To: ExtractStream@y...
> Subject: [ExtractStream] Extract Stream broken inquiry
> 
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out where ExtractStream breaks after 
using 
> MFS Tools restore. Has anyone else done anything to their TiVo 
which 
> caused ExtractStream to stop working?
> 
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