[mythtv-users] Tivo as backend

M.Barnabas Luntzel mark at luntzel.com
Tue Mar 29 05:41:16 UTC 2005


alright well don't hold your breath. control freaks you guess? you can 
pretty much bet they will not be loosening their grip anytime soon.

I agree it'd be nice to have an all in one every media type supported 
device. its a nice dream, for now.

On Mar 28, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Griffon -- wrote:

> Well, personally I would love to have my HD Tivo integrate with Myth.
> That would give me 2 HD OTA and 2 HD Sat tuners able to do direct hard
> drive writes. If the TV recordings showed up directly in my MythTv
> with maybe little Tivo icons on them or something then the wife could
> hit everything in one place and never have to switch the TV input :).
> Personally I could a lot cool things with this idea at least as far as
> D*TV goes. I would hack my HD Tivo in a second if I thought I could
> have slick integration and truly centralize all my music vids and TV
> from one UI. One of the most frustrating things aboute D*TV is they
> make it point to keep any type of nice Tivo feature of upate as far
> away from their customers as possible (control freaks I guess).
>
> -Griffon
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:50:48 -0800, M. Barnabas Luntzel
> <mark at luntzel.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 28, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Rob Walker wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone figured out how to point their front end to a Tivo box?
>>>
>>> I was thinking that we could get a lot of the listings via the web
>>> interface,
>>> and then use the mplayer which can play the tmf files.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> rob
>>>
>>
>> huh?
>>
>> tivo is a closed system...I guess something might be possible with a
>> modified series 1.
>>
>> But I can't for the life of me figure out why anybody with a mythtv
>> system would want to do this. Did I miss something?
>>
>>
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