merging .ty files

[shandrakor]

In windows - use "copy /b file1.ty+file2.ty+file3.ty fullfile.ty"

~evilshandie

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "J. Scott Dorr" <merlin@f...> wrote:
> I'll try to keep this as concise as possible.
> 
> I'm having a heck of a time extracting shows directly to my win2k 
box: nc is
> WAAAY slow (I was getting about 42k/sec). I booted my win2k box 
into SuSE
> linux (one of three os's on the box) and got similar speeds running 
nc to nc.
> Didn't matter if the extraction tool was extractstream, sendstream, 
or
> mfs_export. So, I tried the nfs route. I got the bandwidth up to
> 300-350k/sec (and yes, I mounted with the '-o rsize=8192,wsize8192' 
options).
> Ok, so running nfs to my linux OS seems the way to go.
> 
> But.
> 
> Doing NFS, I can't use sendstream/extractstream since the tivo OS 
can't deal
> with files >2GB in size, and they produce a single .ty file. So, I 
use
> mfs_extract. This is all fine and good, but I end up with a gaggle 
of .ty
> files for large shows.
> 
> It seems the conversion/editing/remuxing tools are better in the 
windows world
> right now, so I'd like to bring those .ty files over to my windows 
partition.
> Easier said than done. Due to reasons that might best be left to 
another
> post, it's not practical to cat all the .ty files into one big one 
and bring
> that over to the ntfs partition. So, I'm looking at bringing over 
all the .ty
> files.
> 
> Is there an easier way for me to do all this? And if not, what's 
the best way
> to merge the multiple .ty files into one big one that tools 
like 'splitstream'
> can use?
> 
> 
> Thanks for the help. :)
> 
> - scott