[ExtractStream] ReceiveStream

[Trevor Sky Garside]

Warren:

Does it actually move the data into MFS, or does it need the original source
files to stay where you put them?

Also, will it only work with true TyStreams, or could you conceivable create
your own M2A and M2V files from some other source, and load them in using
this script?


Trevor
trevor@t...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Toomey" <wkt@t...>
To: <ExtractStream@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 11:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ExtractStream] ReceiveStream


> In article by Bob Fronk:
> > Warren,
> > Could you point me to more info on this, or give more "novice" level
> > info.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Bob
>
> Ok, this is hopefully what you want. The TiVo records audio/video data in
> a combined format that is known as a TyStream. Several tools are available
> to extract a tystream recording from the TiVo to an external device (I
won't
> point you at the tools, because there are several of them).
>
> Now, it would be great to have a tool which could take this exported
tystream
> and re-insert it into the TiVo, but there isn't one. However, there is a
way
> of re-inserting a stream is you have it broken into separate audio and
video
> components.
>
> To do this, you need to use a tool like vsplit or vsplit13, which will
> create an MPEG-2 video stream (.mpv) and an MPEG-2 layer 2 audio stream
> (.mpa) from the original tystream.
>
> Once you have these two files, you can throw the original tystream file
> away (assuming you don't want to keep it). Now you can run the script
> that I posted on your TiVo which will recombine and re-insert the two
> files back on to the TiVo in the Now Showing.
>
> For example, say I had recorded a 30 minute program (1800 seconds long)
> which is now two files fred.mpv and fred.mpa. What I could do on the
> TiVo is:
>
> bash-2.02# tivosh file-to-recording.tcl fred Fred 'The Fred Show' 0 1800
>
> This would looks for the files fred.mpv and fred.mpa, recombine them,
> install the combined tystream into the TiVo MFS filesystem as
> /Recording/TmsId/Fred (that's the second argument above). Then in Now
> Showing you would find a program called 'The Fred Show' which was recorded
> starting at 0000 hours (midnight) and going for 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
>
> The files fred.mpa and fred.mpv have to be visible to the TiVo in the Unix
> filesystem. So either you have to copy them over into /var, or you can
make
> them visible by mounting an NFS or SMBFS filesystem.
>
> Cheers,
> Warren
>
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