[ExtractStream] Digest Number 333

[Michael Proctor-smith]

> From: Faye Pearson <faye@c...>
> Subject: idea for development
> 
> I don't know if anyone is working on this but it's
> something I'm
> interested in so I would be quite keen to invest
> time and related
> experience in this.
> 
> My fondest dream is to watch a program from the tivo
> on my laptop while
> someone else is watching a different program on the
> tivo directly
> (ie through the tv it's connected to) downstairs.
> 

This would push disk bandwith as you would be two
streams playing out and one being caputred at the same
time. In my tests I get messed up input streams when I
do this. If not a crashed tivo.

> At the moment solutions seem to involve TCP
> (particularly netcat) with
> no particular care taken to decide how the data is
> packeted.
> 

What do you mean how the data is packeted? How would
you like it packeted the tivo stores the data in 128K
blockes. 

> I would have thought that putting frames in UDP
> packets for transmission
> would make much more sense - it doesn't matter if
> you lose the odd frame
> MPEG2 can resync.
> 
> This is likely to need people who have experience of
> ripping tivo
> streams apart and joining them back together again. 
> The tivo side
> should be as lightweight as possible - just deciding
> how to packet the
> data and then sending it, the clever stuff would be
> on the PC end and
> depending on taste, could deliver to a port on
> localhost via a more
> conventional stream format or output via pipe to eg.
> vlc ?
> 
> I have to say that I'm more interested in this
> possibility than
> save-to-disc at the moment.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> 
> Faye
> 
> -- 
> Faye Pearson

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