It sounds like ffmpeg is crashing when trying to transcode the files to mpeg-2 streams for your tivo. I don't have a powerPC mac to test with, but it's possible that I failed to build ffmpeg correctly for it... Can you do me a favor and open up a Terminal.app and run
Code:
tail -20 /tmp/pyTivoX.log
/Applications/pyTivoX.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg
and then cut/paste the output here?
Okay, here's the output, I think (I'm new to terminal and to posting!):
tail -20 /tmp/pyTivoX.log
INFO
yTivo
yTivo is ready.
/Applications/pyTivoX.app/Contents/Resources/pyTivo-wgw/Cheetah/Compiler.py:1508: UserWarning:
You don't have the C version of NameMapper installed! I'm disabling Cheetah's useStackFrames option as it is painfully slow with the Python version of NameMapper. You should get a copy of Cheetah with the compiled C version of NameMapper.
"\nYou don't have the C version of NameMapper installed! "
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:28:58] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0" 200 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:29:25] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0" 200 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:29:55] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0" 200 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:29:58] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:29:58] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=pyTivo%20Share&SortOrder=Title&ItemCount=8&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-container%2Ffolder,video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:30:01] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:30:02] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=pyTivo%20Share&SortOrder=Title&ItemCount=1&AnchorItem=%2FpyTivo%2520Share%2FCoca%2520Cola.mov&AnchorOffset=-1&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-container%2Ffolder,video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:30:02] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=TVBusQuery&Container=pyTivo%20Share&File=%2FCoca%20Cola.mov HTTP/1.1" 200 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:30:04] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryFormats&SourceFormat=video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg HTTP/1.1" 404 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:30:04] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=pyTivo%20Share&SortOrder=Title&ItemCount=8&AnchorItem=%2FpyTivo%2520Share%2FCoca%2520Cola.mov&AnchorOffset=-2&Filter=x-tivo-container%2Ftivo-videos,x-tivo-container%2Ffolder,video%2Fx-tivo-mpeg,video%2F* HTTP/1.1" 200 -
10.0.1.197 - - [10/Jan/2009 22:30:07] "GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0" 200 -
/Applications/pyTivoX.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg[Joe-Casalnuovos-Computer:~] jacasalnuovo% /Applications/pyTivoX.app/Contents/Resources/ffmpeg