[ExtractStream] TiVo Transcoding???

[Barcinski, Andy]

I'm guessing that the mpeg decoder in the machine will not work to do mpeg-1
(even if you COULD get into the kernel and use the chip directly). Chances
are you'd be stuck with a 54 MHz RISC chip without floating point to do
encoding, and 16 MB of RAM.

Hope you have a few years to wait for it to encode.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tone Jacobs [mailto:tone@t...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:37 PM
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> Subject: [ExtractStream] TiVo Transcoding???
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> Has anyone thought of trying to compile some tools on the 
> TiVo side of things to transcode from MPEG2 -> MPEG1 in order 
> to do VCD's, xVCD's, or SVCD's? This seems like it could be 
> way more effecient than trying to transfer a 4 Gig file over 
> the net to somewhere else only to do the Transcoding there.
> 
> It might also be possible to use the built encoding/decoding 
> chips to help speed up the process.
> 
> Then a smaller CD size file transfer wouldn't be so bad. 
> Besides, you could set up the Transcoding process to use 
> spare processor cycles when it's not doing other things. I 
> always put my TiVo on standby when not in use.
> 
> Anyone interested in a project like this?
> 
> Can code from the ExtractStream be used to get to the MPEG streams?
> 
> What other problems/issues might be critical?
> -- 
> Tony Jacobs * tone@t... * TopSoft, Inc. * www.topsoft.org
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