[ale] svideo recorder to hard disk

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

Aaron:

You are partially right.  If I buy a Tivo device and enroll to subscription,
then cancel subscription within a month the TIVO is enabled for Manual
recording aka the device becomes a digital vcr.
There are conflicting reports on this, so I have to check it out.

Persistence = If you want your child to learn your culture and language a
bit so she can converse with relatives back home on a visit it will motivate
you.

-Narahari

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:52 PM, arxaaron <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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