tivoapp 2.x and TiVo 2.5.5

[dattrax]

All, (esp UK owners)

I had the same problem when my TIVO was 'upgraded' a few weeks ago in 
the UK, so with the help of my trusty MPEG2 ISO specs and a hex 
editor, and a stunning revelation in Mcdonalds, I now have a 
completely rewritten, brand new program for extracting 2.5.5 UK 
streams.

It's not opensource or GPL or anything, but I don't mind sharing the 
exe about (although I'll need somewhere to put it). It also uses 
win32 api, so its not really that portable.

The reason for this, is that I went looking for various programs 
before I even started writing my own. The amount of recycling of 
source code was just causing me problems finding numberous versions 
of the same code ... etc ... I think we've all been there.

So if I maintain this as a binary, at least we'll know where we all 
are with it.

It handles all the quality settings and both VBR and CBR (although 
the format is not actually any different) but I have tested with 
both.


Anyone whos interested drop me a mail and I'll send it back when I 
get a moment.

P.S. If anyone has a few hundred Kb of US stream I'll probably be 
able to figure out the slight differences for that.

james@d...

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "kill1967" <johngibb@c...> wrote:
> I've been hunting for a way to extract streams, either converted to 
> MPEG or as raw streams to later convert. I've tried numerous ways 
of 
> doing this but all seem to be corrupted and cause application 
> crashes.
> 
> 1. tivoapp - as reported by someone else on this list, the 
> application works to extract ty streams, but either (a) crashes 
> while extracting MPEG or (b) extracts 85% of the stream to MPEG and 
> then crashes out (different % for different programs/programmes* 
> delete depending on which side of the pond you live on). It's just 
> the usual invalid page fault that pops up another box regarding an 
> error caused by MFC42.DLL, which I've changed to be an older 
version 
> (now running under Windows Millennium after upgrading from Win98SE 
> and it's still the same error)
> 
> 2. sendstream - Tried Zmerch's extraction using sendstream last 
> night and zss produces a bad ty log file equivalent to the size of 
> the original ty.
> 
> 3. Tyconvert - Crashes whenever you try to run it on a tivoapp 
> stream (using ExtractStream) or a sendstream from Zmerch's 
technique.
> 
> 4. Tyc - Under LINUX tyc also fails to do a proper conversion.
> 
> It seems to me that there's a difference in the streams from my UK 
> Thomson PAL TiVo and that of the US NTSC TiVo. 
> 
> Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated, as my list of 
> Quantum Leap episodes to be archived are starting to fill up my 
> machine
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> John.