[ale] svideo recorder to hard disk

[arxaaron]

On 2011/06/27, at 11:52 , Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:

> Here is the situation.
>
> I have susbcribed to Indian TV programming.  It comes via Silverlight.
>
> I used recordmydesktop in combo with xdotool to automate recording  
> of programs in the middle of the day and middle of night.
>
> It was working ok but the sound was crappy.
>
> I have a spare pc that I put WindozeXP on and I am automating that  
> with autohotkey (btw linux needs this bad)
>
> I have now taken Svideo out of the Windze Machine (along with analog  
> audio) and I am inputting that to a regurlar plain old vcr with  
> scheduled recording.  It works good.
>
> I want to replace the VCR with a Tivo or a DVR device.  Tivo is  
> preferred because Tivo has networking abitlities and allows me to  
> get to the programming from other boxes.
>
> However, Tivo requires subscription and I am trying to learn how to  
> use Tivo without subscription.
>
> Once it is on Tivo I want to be able to pull the .tivo file and put  
> it on the Myth Backend server.  This way Myth front end can retreive  
> the video and watch it on the main tv.
>
> -Narahari


Interesting gyrations you are going through to recover your
Fair Use rights from the Destrucrive Restriction Mechanisms
imposed by the extortionist corporate criminals of MafiaSoft!
I'm impressed by your persistence and ingenuity!

As to the Tivo -- it is my understanding that there are no
hacks or methods that will let you simply use the box
like you would a VCR.  There is no time scheduled
recording without a subscription,  and no way to do a
simple manual record start / stop either physically or
with infrared remote.

I'm hoping that Dennis will step in and (re)confirm this, but
I was gifted a TIVO some time back and investigated this
same issue rather extensively to see if I could get some
sane functionality out of the box.   No such luck.

peace
aaron