I had a Series 2 Tivo, and besides the Tivo stuff, it's pretty much useless. <br><br>I don't know the technical terms for this, but I looked into trying to make it run myth and a different flavor of linux. It turns out that you can't because of the propriety drivers for the tv in and out.
<br><br>You could check around on some tivo hacking message boards, but last time I checked, they pretty much said that it can't be done.<br><br><br>Good Luck!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Remco Treffkorn</b> <<a href="mailto:remco@rvt.com">remco@rvt.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Thursday 26 October 2006 16:28,
<a href="mailto:petesea@bigfoot.com">petesea@bigfoot.com</a> wrote:<br>> Is it possible to load MythTV on Tivo Series 1 hardware... specifically a<br>> Philips PTV300/HDR312?<br>><br>> I just replaced my old Series 1 with a Series 3 and don't want to pay for
<br>> service on the Series 1, so it's probably going to sit and gather dust<br>> unless I can use it for something. I'd like to have a more generic "Media<br>> Player" mainly for videos... most of them .avi files. Although using it
<br>> as a secondary (free) PVR would be a big plus.<br><br>It's a 50MHz PowerPC.<br>It only works because of the mpeg hardware codec.<br>I'd say: No.<br><br>Maybe reusing the case?<br><br>--<br>Remco Treffkorn (RT445)
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