[mythtv-users] MythTivo? What'd I miss?

[Dane Kantner]

You can use mythTV as a descrambler??  how (?)

-dane

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Forde" <ian at duckland.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTivo? What'd I miss?


> Okay - Since I've just gotten it running, all I can say is,
> "WWWOOOOWWWWW!!!!"
>
> Ahem.
>
> Basically, it's another module for MythTV that allows you to watch shows
> off of your tivo.  Or multiple Tivos... ;)
>
> (You'll need MythTV 0.8 to build it though, as it won't compile with the
> CVS version that I downloaded yesterday.)
>
> It connects to your Tivo, retrieves the "Now Showing" list, and, with
> the aid of a specially hacked version of mplayer (available at
> tivo-mplayer.sourceforge.net) lets you watch the Tivo shows on your
> MythTV.
>
> In order to build it, I was lucky in that I had the atrpms installed for
> 0.8, so it could reference /usr/include/mythtv instead of my
> cvs-installed /usr/local/include/mythtv headers.
>
> What does this make possible?  Well, you could have both the Tivo and
> MythTV record scrambled-channel shows (with separate cable boxes, of
> course) and watch them all through the MythTv.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 14:03, Albert Santoni wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > There's been some chitchat about this mystical MythTivo. Can anyone fill
me
> > in?
> > (Man, maybe I really SHOULD upgrade to the cvs version...)
> >
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