[ExtractStream] Re: can't extract anything with any program

[Nicholas D. Davies]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: agassi_1_fan [mailto:lmurray@r...] 
> Sent: 10 June 2002 15:52
> To: ExtractStream@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ExtractStream] Re: can't extract anything with any program
> 
> 
> Jon,
> 
> We'll, I can understand the frustration. I've been down this 
> same path with very little success. To pull the ty files off 
> the tivo to linux, many have suggested mfs_stream. Not sure 
> where to find it, and haven't tried it personally. I suspect 
> someone will reply with a URL for ya. I use mfs_export to 
> pull the ty files off. (And a bastardize d version I hacked 
> up called mfs_export2.) To split the files, you have a few 
> choices. Theres a program called vsplit that works well. 
> Page back though the archives to find the link. zss also 
> works well. splitsteam has worked well for me. tyc seems to 
> fail too often for my tastes.
> 
> Try some of those options. I've been working on a linux 
> solution for a few weeks now, and don't really have the 
> answer. However, here are my notes on what I've tried:
> 
> http://themurrays.homeip.net/downloads/tivo/tivo.notes
> 
> Its really not a website, it's really just a few notes. Most 
> of it has been collected off of other websites.
> 
> I will continue to work on the linux side as I have time. If 
> you come up with anything concrete, please post your results 
> back here.
> 
> good luck, 
> -lloyd-
> 
> 
> P.S. other fun tools and etc can be found here:
> 
> http://themurrays.homeip.net/downloads/tivo/
> 
> 
> 
> --- In ExtractStream@y..., "jfeynman122" <jfeynman122@y...> wrote:
> > I've got a panasonic hdr212 tivo (US Stand alone unit) with version
> > 2.5.1-01-1-000 of the tivo software. I've tried using TyTool (alpha 
> > 4), but its unable to complete a download of any show. I've tried 
> > downloading a 30 minute show that was recorded at basic 
> quality with 
> > it, and it starts transfering the file, but then fails at a random 
> > point, then starts over with a new output filename. It 
> continues this 
> > cycle until my hd is full of incomplete m2v files (also, after the 
> > first unsuccessful dl, it seems to put the audio data in 
> the txt file 
> > and it doesn't create any new m2a files).
> > 
> > I've also tried using ExtractStream, but it either immediatly craps
> > out or it grabs the wrong stream. sendstream v2 mostly works, or 
> > atleast the stream it sends is a fairly constant size. The 'actual 
> > yield'(that is, how much video zss can move to m2v before throwing 
> > the remainder of the stream in bad-X) of video after 
> running zss can 
> > range from 5 to 25 minutes (with a 30 minute show). 
> > 
> > So far, my only successful process has gone like this:
> > 
> > 1) find the id for the show I want to extract from the nowplaying
> > page served up from http-tt.tcl.
> > 2) run tivosh
> > 3) dumpobj the id from step 1
> > 4) dumpobj all part id's from step 3 (for a 30min basic show, its 
> > just one id. These have always been the id from step one with 
> > a /12,/14,etc on the end)
> > 5) run sendstream -s "file ids from 4" | ./nc -n -w3 192.168.1.20 
> > 11111
> > 6) catch the stream on my linux box with ./nc -l -p 11111 > show.ty
> > 7) use zss to split the show.ty into m2v and m2a
> > 8) copy m2? to my win2k machine
> > 9) use dvd2avi to make a d2v file from the m2v file
> > 10) use tmpgenc to make an mpeg. 
> > 
> > When I used ExtractStream, I did the exact same process, except with
> > ExtractStream in place of sendstream. 
> > 
> > So, what am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > I also tried using tyc, but that threw a tremendous amount
> > of 'Skipping chunk bad timebase', and the mpeg it produced wouldn't 
> > play in xine or win media player. I also tried using the hacked up 
> > mplex, but it failed to produce anything.
> > 
> > What I'd really like is a way to do all ty to mpeg/avi/rm conversion
> > completely from the command line under linux with as little human 
> > intervention as possible. Has anyone managed to do this?
> > 
> > Or, at the very least, a way to get the FSID without 2 cut and
> > paste's and running dumpobj twice?
> > 
> > Thanks, Jon
> 
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