TivoWeb Error, Audio question, Linux question

[skorous]

--- In ExtractStream@y..., Daniel <junior15@m...> wrote:
> I'm also having another problem that I hoped somebody could help 
with.
> I use TivoApp to extract the streams onto my WindowsXP system, and 
then
> use TyConvert to convert to MPEG. I then encode to DiVx. I've 
noticed
> that I've got little hiccups in the audio in the final product. I
> wasn't sure if it was the DiVx encoding or the MPEG conversion, so 
I
> played one of the MPEG files, and it had the same hiccups. I'm 
planning
> on installing linux on another PC this weekend and am going to try 
to
> use tyc on linux to do the conversion instead, but I thought I 
would see
> if anybody else has found a fix for this on a Windoze PC.

I've never used TyConvert but have you tried using SplitStream and 
then multiplexing them through TMPEnc? I know it's a hassle when you 
can do it all in one step with TyConvert but a couple of the local 
wizards have found some logical flaws in other programs.


> While I'm on the subject of Linux, has anybody come up with a way 
to do
> batch extractions off a Tivo using Linux, or anything other than
> TivoApp? I would really prefer to do everything in Linux, but I 
haven't
> found a way to setup a script to start the extraction on the Tivo 
and
> save it on the PC the way TivoApp does. One other thing I like 
about
> TivoApp is the fact it uses the web server to get the program 
names and
> saves the file names with the program names. Any ideas on this 
would be
> appreciated.

Well, doing everything in linux is still a bit premature at this 
moment (IMHO). You can extract multiple streams using NFS but it'll 
require you writing a small shell script and naming them by hand. 
If you were to get tyc working under linux (I never tried, my 
compiler's braindamaged and I've been to lazy to fix it) you could 
then batch convert them in to streams but I'm concerned that you'll 
still have your audio pops.

Edmond Shwayri has been talking about modifying splitstream to 
create correctly PES stamped mpeg streams which should make 
multiplexing them into a single stream much easier I think. At that 
point you'd just need an easy way to create the script and a way to 
reliably chop commercials.

But of course this is just my understanding. Everybody please feel 
free to disagree. :-)

Skorous