SplitStream 0.3 and other utils

cerevant@y... cerevant at y...
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 23:12:47 -0000


--- In ExtractStream@y..., Dale Reed <daler@n...> wrote:
> What might be of use would be a utility that read the streams on
> the tivo itself. It would have some of the SS "logic" code in it.
> Then it would tell where the bad chunks start and what logic it
> used for reading the last chunk and the next. I bet comparing
> the last chunk and next will show that its accross partitions
> or something where the calculations are close, but not exact.
> Without investigating on the tivo side, you're just guessing at
> raw data and can't determine the real problem that easily.
> 
> I'm willing to compile some "investigation" code for the tivo,
> as I have a cross compiler setup and am very familiar with
> compiling code for it. :)

If you build it, I will come - I seem to have a problem TiVo. I 
pulled down 3 streams today using the tympeg version (I call 
it .4...we should get it checked in with a version...) and ran 
splitstream, and *all* of them failed (unrecoverable sequence 
failure).

Jeff