Tivo tools have finally come of age

[ssurgul]

Ok, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement, but this one:

TyTool 9r14

is really amazing. Not only will it extract the ty streams to your computer, but it will also allow for a marker file to be created, and edited, to chop out commercials and unwanted lead and trailing space. Further, it will allow for separate and integrated MPEG2 streams, and DVD vob file outputs, as well as a generic menu creation for DVD authoring as well. By far, one of the most robust and actually easy to use GUI tools I've seen to date. Oh, and it handles Tivo Series 1 and 2, though mine is only a 1.

Comments

[thesmileetiger.livejournal.com]

I just got myself a series one last week. I am waiting for my TerboNet card to come in so I can finally get video off of the unit at a reasonable speed. It has already changed the way I watch TV.

Any tips for other cool tivo tools? Simplicity is already my good friend :).

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

Well, to be frank, once you have the Turbonet card, you'll be where I'm at. The only thing I'd strongly recommend is the TivoWeb tool as well, so you can control the Tivo from a nifty web interface. It's amazingly helpful, especially from any computer in the house to do all the things you'd normally do through the interactive menus.

Beyond that, I'd just really suggest having A> a LOT of disk storage space to hold the shows on (they can get appallingly large) and B> a means of backing said up.

Oh! You'll also need FlaskMPEG if you want to convert the files into something other than MPEG, such as DivX. Currently, VirutalDub needs some goofy codec that I've not been able to find to read and handle MPG2 files correctly, and I've not found any other conversion tool.

[thesmileetiger.livejournal.com]

Hmm I can't seem to download TyTool from the forum dispite the fact that I have registered. Any idea what gives?

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

Hrm. None. But if you ask nice, and give me an email address that can accept a couple of meg attachment, I could probably be persuaded to fling the code to you there.

[thesmileetiger.livejournal.com]

Odd. I _finally_ got the confirmation email. It works now :).

Thanks!

[ssurgul.livejournal.com]

Sure, no sweat. Enjoy the tool; it's still one of the best I've found yet. :)