Accessing Tivo as a hard drive

[Nandy]

I would like to know if anyone is accessing the tivo as a network drive from a xp machine. The reason I want to do this is to make it less time consuming to put my shows in my ipod.
What I do now is moving the show from the tivo to the laptop wirelessly, which is slow anyway, then either transferring that file to ipod format or if I want good sync with the video/audio I then convert the .ty file to a mpg file, and then to a ipod mp4 file. I can cut 5 to 10 minutes off the process if I don’t have to move the file to the laptop.

Thanks!

[JWThiers]

I would like to know if anyone is accessing the tivo as a network drive from a xp machine. The reason I want to do this is to make it less time consuming to put my shows in my ipod.
What I do now is moving the show from the tivo to the laptop wirelessly, which is slow anyway, then either transferring that file to ipod format or if I want good sync with the video/audio I then convert the .ty file to a mpg file, and then to a ipod mp4 file. I can cut 5 to 10 minutes off the process if I don’t have to move the file to the laptop.

Thanks!
Xp doesn't recognize the tivo OS file system so it wouldn't work.

Sounds like you are using an 802.11b network adapter, that can be VERY slow. Besides just using the tivo as a network drive wouldn't speed things up. You still have to process the file to use it. and that is done by a program on your pc. It still needs to get the file to process meaning using that same slow wireless connection. Your best bet is to speed up your network connection by either using an all wired network to your tivo (Fastest). Or if wires are a problem, use a wired adapter and run it to a wireless bridge. You then can at least get 802.11g speed (second fastest, 1 hr transfers in < 10 minutes).

[Nandy]

I see, I could see my RedHat box with my windows os when I had that box so I thougth tha since the tivo is also a linux os I could do the same. That is the same speed I use to watch the show using TWP. Im sure it is fast enough for the program I use. However, since I can't access the box, that last 2 sentences are purelly academic.

Thanks!

[JWThiers]

I see, I could see my RedHat box with my windows os when I had that box so I thougth tha since the tivo is also a linux os I could do the same. That is the same speed I use to watch the show using TWP. Im sure it is fast enough for the program I use. However, since I can't access the box, that last 2 sentences are purelly academic.

Thanks!
Being able to see the box (actually the response to a network request) is different than actually using stuff on a linux partition. Linux can actually read a NTFS partition (writing to it is a different story), but XP cant read an ext2 (linux) partition. As far as the speed thing. If you are using a USB wireless adapter, to get an idea of the difference in speed. When I first networked my DirecTv Tivos I used a USB wireless adapter to MRV (similar to watching a stream) and it would take between 50 and 55 Minutes to transfer a show. If you waited a minute for the transfer to start I could watch the show and actually FF thru the commercials, barely. I switched to a bridge setup to take advantage of G speeds Now a 1 hour show is done, or almost done, by the first commercial break. That is a big jump and when you are talking about moving large files around that is the difference between merely annoying and unbearable.