[ExtractStream] TiVoApp problems?

[Roger Merchberger]

--- billyb111b <billyb111b@y...> wrote:
> Hey group,
> 
> Wondering if anybody could help me out here.
> 
> I have been using TiVoApp to extract raw Tystreams for the past 2 
> months with no problems, its just so easy. So now Ive restored my 
> drive from a mfstool backup (Best Q only from now on!) and now 
> TiVoApp no longer works..

If you're extracting shows to view on your PC or to "tivoserve" back
to the tivo (or DVD-R), best quality is... ummm... the best. However,
if you're extracting to SVCD, I'd recommend that you record
everything at "high quality" as you'll spend less CPU time &
heartburn transcoding down to the 480x480 necessary for SVCD
compliance.

> It establishes its telnet, connects OK, posts the xml ok, links to 
> the TivoWeb stuff OK, but if I try exract... nothing, freezes up
> the 
> whol PC, cant even kill it without problems. I got a philips 2.5, 
> and XP Pro desk.

TivoApp locks XP? Ouch... or did you mean locks the Tivo?

> Regular extractions work fine (the old nc-nc type out the fsid way)
> so its just the Tivoapp program.
> 
> anybody know of any complications with mfstool backups?

Yes, as I understand it, mfstool changes the offsets of the MFS
partitions and TivoApp is probably barfing on bad info. I guess the
Tivo can handle it, so there's no apparent errors in operation, but
some utilities can get acute heartburn. Please understand that I've
never used mfstool, and I only have a 40G HD in my SA Philips Tivo,
so a lot of the problems others have mentioned I've never experienced
myself...

... in other words, I could be full of condensed milk, as my
father-in-law would have said ...
HTH anyway,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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