Off of tivo video archival/storage?

[razer]

I would like to add an ethernet card to my tivo so I can transfer recordings off of the tivo (remove from Now Playing), and store on external disks for archival and be able to, at some later date, put the programs back on the tivo (add to Now Playing) and watch them. Transcoding (video extraction?) is unnecessary since I wish to put the recordings back on the tivo at a later date. Basically this is like having unlimited recording capacity.

My TiVo is a Philips Series 1, 14hr HDR112 Standalone. S/W version (3.0-01-1-000). I have replaced the original single 13.6GB disk with a pair of 160GB disks. I used copykern to install an LBA-aware kernel. It holds about 160 hours of best quality video using VBR.

While adding more disk space to the tivo is possible, I'd rather not. It already takes a while to generate the Now Playing screen, and scrolling thru all those programs gets time consuming even using the channel up/dn buttons.

I assume that installing an ethernet adapter and getting telnet/ftp working would be the first thing to do, but beyond that what do I need to do, provided this is even possible. Perhaps have to whip up a tcl script that will add and subtract the program entry from the list of available programs?

Thanks,
Razer

[BTUx9]

after enabling ftp/telnet, you'd probably want to get mfs_ftp running on the tivo.

Your scripting for pulling shows could probably be done on the PC side, connecting to mfs_ftp.

It'd also be a good idea to disable encryption (using nocso patch), because if you have a catastrophic failure of your tivo, encrypted shows are pretty much unsalvageable (including those you may have pulled to the PC)

[razer]

BTUx9,

Very nice, very nice. That is exactly what I need.

Thank you.

-Razer