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

[Michael Loftis]

Rob wrote:

>At 10:16 10/05/02 -0700, Roger Merchberger wrote:
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>>--- kriscomach <biskupiec@h...> wrote:
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>>>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.
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>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.
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>>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).
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>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..
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>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.
>
There is an NFS Server for windows that's free that works quite well, 
provided you don't want executables and a few other things. As far as 
an NFS client I don't know of any offhand. http://www.jgaa.com/ take a 
look at the WarNFSd. I use it to export streams off my tivo onto my 
windows box, works really well.

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