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Dnet and TiVo ???

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mander

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Has anyone gotten this running on a TiVo box? It is runing linux.... it seems like it would be possible, and how many tech heads have tivo's???

 
Mander, do you know what CPU the TiVo uses? In theory, the existing Linux binaries would be able to work without much, if any effort, but it would have to be an X86 or PPC CPU, since that's all the current binaries support.😱

PS You're a sight for sore eyes 🙂
 
About 5 problems I see with this

1) Getting to a BASH prompt - while not difficult; would be interesting to do if needed.
2) Connecting - You would need a Tivo(Turbo)/Net card and then I'm not sure if it would work. PPP(Serial) might also be an option
3) Speed - I think the TiVo runs on a 266 mhz box; add that in with the time to index the results; not really sure how long it would take.
4) OS - While it does run Linux; it runs a very very scaled down version; with only the minimum drivers; not sure if that would hurt.
5) App conflict - Again, not sure; TiVO is a very unique thing.

You may want to ask your question in the Underground forms @ TiVo Community

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news; but if you could get it to work I would be in AWE!
 
Well it is running a PPC. I have bash running over telnet over PPP. I can mod the init file to start and run anything. In theory DNET uses only idle processor time. So while it may not do a lot it would do it 24x7.

I will be downloading the PPC version of DNET and trying this out soon. I will keep you posted, just wanted to see if anyone else had done it.

Matthew
 
Cool, good luck! 🙂 You might have to mess with the DNet settings to get it to use PPP too; not sure how it will be looking.
 
If there's a LinuxPPC client, it should work as long as it's statically compiled (which I think it is). Unfortunatley the PPC chip in the TiVo is a whopping 50MHz.
 
How can a 50mhz chip encode video fast enough to store it like it does?:Q
 
There are specialized "coprocessors" for the actual video encode/decode. Think of them as a 3D graphics card.

JHutch
 
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