[ExtractStream] what is better Tivo 2.5 or Tivo 1.3????

[Rob]

At 10:16 10/05/02 -0700, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>--- kriscomach <biskupiec@h...> wrote:
> > Can someone tell me is it easyer to extract video from 1.3 or 2.5
> > with tivoftpd. also when you go to the directory that has your film
> > what is the file name that I should be looking at? Please help.
>
>As far as video extraction differences between versions, I haven't
>seen any difference between 1.3, 2.0 & 2.5 - provided you turn off
>the VBR encoding ("Save Space feature") in 2.5.

Hmm. I'm on 2.5.5 (Uk - pretty much same as 3.0).. VBR is on, and always 
has been. Maybe that's why I have so much trouble, but it's only with 
*some* steams, not even a majority of them, that just go totally ga ga.


>Most people use either netcat (the 'nc' program as outlined on my
>extraction page) or mount a drive on a different Linux/Unix box over
>NFS. (Very few people that I know of have had any luck with the Samba
>network drive mounting over Winders).

I have a unix (FreeBSD) box sharing the same drive(s) out on NFS and samba, 
so the tivo, unix and windoze boxes can all see the same directories. Best 
of all worlds..

Maybe I should investigate NFS for win, though, coz samba gets a tad 
sluggish for the general file-server use it's being put to.

Rob