Transferring videos from Thomson PVR10UK to a Windows PC?

[minoan]

I have a standard, unmodified, Thomson PVR10UK. Can I transfer videos from the hard disk of the TIVO to a Windows PC (XP Professional) so as to burn them onto a DVD?
Can I do this just with software, without buying new hardware?

[AMc]

You can use a video capture card connected to the SCART output of the Tivo and make an analogue recording on your PC which can be burned - bascially using the PC like a video recorder. This requires no new hardware (unless you need a capture card for the PC).

If you buy a network card for your Tivo there are ways to directly extract the video as a digital file but the forum rules here prohibit discussion. If you google Deal Database Tivo you will find a place where this topic can be discussed.

[blindlemon]

If you buy a network card for your Tivo there are ways to directly extract the video as a digital file but the forum rules here prohibit discussion. Although we aren't allowed to discuss the details of video extraction, I should point out that once you have a Cachecard (http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=FF7&q=cachecard+PVR10UK&btnG=Search&meta=) you can also use it for doing many other things as well in addition to extracting video - eg. run TiVoWeb, install hacks, get your daily call data via your broadband connection etc. - all of which are perfectly legitimate topics for discussion here :)

[Pete77]

I should point out that once you have a Cachecard (http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=FF7&q=cachecard+PVR10UK&btnG=Search&meta=) you can also use it for doing many other things as well in addition to extracting video

Interesting to note which website comes up in Position No 1 on that Google Search isn't it.:p

Can I point out that Cachecards and various other Tivo accessories can also be purchased direct from www.9thtee.com/tivoupgrades.htm although there is a hefty shipping fee from the 9th Tee for single items, a shipping delay of around 3 weeks and the possibility of having to pay UK VAT import duty and Parcelforce customs duty payment fees. On the other hand if you were also to purchase a Glo Tivo remote at the same time it would probably still work out significantly cheaper than from a certain UK based supplier.;)

[threadkiller]

Interesting to note which website comes up in Position No 1 on that Google Search isn't it.:p

Can I point out that Cachecards and various other Tivo accessories can also be purchased direct from www.9thtee.com/tivoupgrades.htm although there is a hefty shipping fee from the 9th Tee for single items, a shipping delay of around 3 weeks and the possibility of having to pay UK VAT import duty and Parcelforce customs duty payment fees. On the other hand if you were also to purchase a Glo Tivo remote at the same time it would probably still work out significantly cheaper than from a certain UK based supplier.;)funnily enough it comes up almost at the top on this one also (http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK%7CcountryGB&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=tivo+cachecard&spell=1) although I would recommend using them as their service is excelent, rather than use the opportunity to have the usual dig that some always seem to insist on ;)

[laurence@key2.co]

I think I want a copy of TySuiteJ...
But, I really need a simpleton's guide to installing it. I've successfully followed instructions to install a couple of drive upgrades, a cachecard, tivoweb and mode 0 (just!)...
But, the only pages I can find about TySuiteJ are a bit scary and tell me to do things like:
"ftp NowShowing, mfs_uberexport, and dserver.tcl to somewhere in your Tivo's path. You can see your PATH by typing "set | grep ^PATH" from a Tivo telnet prompt. You can verify they are in the path by typing "which NowShowing" at a Tivo telnet prompt. Make sure you ftp in binary(image) mode, or the files will be corrupted."
I got as far as "set" in telnet but couldn't find the next character!
Has anyone installed this that can help?

[Tim L]

I think I want a copy of TySuiteJ...
But, I really need a simpleton's guide to installing it. I've successfully followed instructions to install a couple of drive upgrades, a cachecard, tivoweb and mode 0 (just!)...
But, the only pages I can find about TySuiteJ are a bit scary and tell me to do things like:
"ftp NowShowing, mfs_uberexport, and dserver.tcl to somewhere in your Tivo's path. You can see your PATH by typing "set | grep ^PATH" from a Tivo telnet prompt. You can verify they are in the path by typing "which NowShowing" at a Tivo telnet prompt. Make sure you ftp in binary(image) mode, or the files will be corrupted."
I got as far as "set" in telnet but couldn't find the next character!
Has anyone installed this that can help?

The character is a pipe, typically shown on a keyboard as a vertical line with a gap in it. If you have a standard UK keyboard, it will be on your backslash key, ie between shift and z.

[laurence@key2.co]

Tim,
Very good of you to answer without laughing at me! I've had a pipe there all this time and I hadn't even noticed. More of a cigar man myself (as Clinton might have said).
Could still use a simpler guide if anyone knows of one!
Cheers,
Loz

[Raisltin Majere]

I'm probably the polar opposite of 'expert', but to see my path I type echo $PATH

which tells me the following are in path

/bin:/sbin:/tvbin:/devbin:/var/hack:/var/hack/bin

so I would have thought putting the files in one of those places would work.

[laurence@key2.co]

Thanks for that. Have put the files in the right place... When I run Tytools UI it connects to tivo, but reports 0 files. Has anyone got it working successfully? Looks like this program could be v useful - if only I could get it to work!

[Raisltin Majere]

Yeah, it works for me.

As a guess I would say it's NowShowing which is used to provide that information.

What do you get with which NowShowing?

[laurence@key2.co]

What do you get with which NowShowing?

If I type NowShowing at a bash prompt it tells me it can't run it or something like that. "which NowShowing" wouldn't run from telnet bash prompt - I don't think "which" is included in the version of linux on uk machines (I couldn't find it anyway) and I didn't know how else to test it.

I did run testSetup - but it had the wrong address for my tivo so failed to connect - I couldn't find a way of correcting that. I did put correct address in application.properties under ui.hosts and made the other changes required in that file. And it connects to tivo and dserver starts up ok.

[johala_reewi]

I had trouble getting the 'suite' to work but found that the 'tool' worked fine. Someone has written some easy to follow instructions too. http://fletchergeek.com/

[TCM2007]

If you can't get NowShowing to run at a bash prompt than that's the root of your issues.

Did you transfer the file over ith the FTP client on the PC in "binary" mode, not "auto" or "text"?

[laurence@key2.co]

I had trouble getting the 'suite' to work but found that the 'tool' worked fine. Someone has written some easy to follow instructions too. http://fletchergeek.com/

That's exactly what I needed! Will rush home after work and get started. Many thanks.

[johala_reewi]

Those instructions were written for version 9 and the latest version is 10r4 so there are a few steps you don't need to do anymore. The author has indicated the bits to skip in notes at the end so it's a good idea to read through first then note which steps you can skip.

[laurence@key2.co]

Those instructions were written for version 9 and the latest version is 10r4 so there are a few steps you don't need to do anymore. The author has indicated the bits to skip in notes at the end so it's a good idea to read through first then note which steps you can skip.

Yup, found that 10r4 was a doddle to set up compared to tysuite and it's working a treat. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.