idea for development

[Faye Pearson]

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.

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

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

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Faye Pearson