[ExtractStream] Problems with ExtractStream / SplitStream

[David Ranch]

Are you trying to play the Tivo media or extract it via
NFS or something like that? If you are trying to extract,
you aren't setting the correct Environment variables.

Please read the ExtractStream HOWTO:

http://www.9thtee.com/extractstream.html


Anyway, this is what I use at home (I'll put this up on
http://rocko.csuchico.edu/~dranch/tivo soon enough)

If anyone could add to this list or give the correct command
sequence to use SplitStream (haven't used it yet), please
post it to the list and I'll start putting together an
Extracting faq.


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1. TELNET to the Tivo (assumes a correctly networked Tivo)

2. Fix the PATH and add some aliases

alias w='cat /proc/loadavg'
alias lsmod='cat /proc/modules'
export PATH=$PATH:/tivo-bin:/hack/bin

3. Start up the old Tivo HTTP server to get FSIDs
(I can't easily find the FSIDs in the new and much
nicer Tivo HTTP server)

/hack/es-0.2/httpd.tcl >/dev/null &;

4. Start up the FTP server (if required)

cd /sbin
/sbin/tivoftpd &

5. Load up the NFS kernel module

insmod -f /sbin/nfs-2.0.1.o

6. Mount my Linux server onto the Tivo

bash-2.02# mount -t nfs 192.168.0.3:/mnt/hdc2/tivo/MEDIA /var/mnt/nfs

7. Set the environment vars to extract video

bash-2.02# export VIDEO_OUT=/var/mnt/nfs/homerpalooza2.m2v
bash-2.02# export AUDIO_OUT=/var/mnt/nfs/homerpalooza2.m2a

8. Extract the video over NFS

ExtractStream 53476 53477 53478


Other useful commands

CPU Load: cat /proc/loadavg

Mount the Tivo partition as R/W:
mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda4

Mount the Tivo partition as R/O:
mount -o remount,ro /dev/hda4

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--David



>I'm running into similar problems. I've got a 20 hr Philips upgraded to
>two 75Gb drives with TivoMad/MFSTools/etc. I'm running 2.0.1-001-000
>
>I try to run ExtractStream (the 6/13/2001 version from sonnik's site) on
>the "Welcome to TiVo" feature and I get the following:
>
>bash-2.02# ./ExtractStream 1958
>Attempting to locate tyStream with fsid 1958...
>...tyStream located, sector map follows:
>Start Length
>02280000 00080000
>02500000 00020000
>021e8000 00008000
>Failed to connect to Video codec.
>bash-2.02#
>
>
>So what am I doing wrong?
>
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