iTiVo 1.2 for Tivo -> Mac -> iPhone

[ding]

Tim,

I just did some googling and found this.

You need to change comskip.ini to export edls. So go into comskip.ini with text edit and change

output_edl=0

to read

output_edl=1

Then you can use this edl as a cutlist with mencoder. Download mencoder
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=62947
and tell it to use the edl. I found these commands that seem to work

video.mpg -edl video.edl -of mpeg -ovc copy -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -oac copy -o output.mpg

video.mpg being the name of your source. video.edl being the name of you edl and output.mpg being the name of your output.

let me know how that goes. I still haven't found out how to do it with ffmpeg.

[Tim Winders]

Originally Posted by ding

let me know how that goes.

Testing now. Thanks!

[Tim Winders]

Got that to work, but the audio and video got way out of sync. Ugh. Will do some more googling and try some different options. Thanks for giving me the general direction...

[ding]

Tim,

Ok, I was getting the same out of sync problem so I did some more googling and I found a solution. It seems like the file created by iTivo has alot of skipped frames. This is most definitely due to the original .tivo file and not something iTivo is doing but it causes it to go out of sync every time there is a cut. The fix is "-noskip", thats it. So the command would be

video.mpg -edl video.edl -noskip -of mpeg -ovc copy -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf -oac copy -o output.mpg

This worked for me perfect. There might be a better way so if you find it post it.

Hopefully this could be an option for the next iTivo.

[Tim Winders]

I finally had a chance to try the -noskip option and got the same results. I'll do some more googling and see what I can figure out. But, this is promising for a possibility as an "Advanced" option for the future.

[preeble]

On a totally different note, I am having issues downloading the shows - it appears that the downloads keep repeating themselves. For example, I will start downloading a show and perhaps I will walk away from the computer an hour later and the show will be 25% downloaded. When I return in a few hours, the show will only be, say 10% downloaded.

Either the connection/download reset or once it finishes, it tries to download again. I'm trying to catch it right at the end, but just haven't been able to time it yet, but will keep trying to see what happens. In the meantime, any thoughts or places I can look?
Thanks.

[Yoav]

Originally Posted by preeble

On a totally different note, I am having issues downloading the shows - it appears that the downloads keep repeating themselves. For example, I will start downloading a show and perhaps I will walk away from the computer an hour later and the show will be 25% downloaded. When I return in a few hours, the show will only be, say 10% downloaded.

Either the connection/download reset or once it finishes, it tries to download again. I'm trying to catch it right at the end, but just haven't been able to time it yet, but will keep trying to see what happens. In the meantime, any thoughts or places I can look?
Thanks.

The show is downloaded via a regular http download (by a program named curl). You can try to manually download the program by connecting to

https://<tivoip>/

with username 'tivo', password <your MAK>

iTiVo tries to download the show, and then compares the size of what it got to the size that tivo claims it should be. If it doesn't get at least 85% of the show, it will retry (up to 4 times) before giving up (next version will actually do something more like 85, 70, 55, 40 in each attempt)...

One possible reason for regular truncation is another 'fetch' running. the tivo will only let you download one show at a time. So make sure no other program is trying to download from the tivo.

[fatespawn]

I run into the same problems with iTivo as I did with TivoDecodeManager. It hangs after 1.67% and won't continue.

It's not another 'fetch' because NowPlaying 2.51 works perfectly. I just wish I could covert to mp4 and edit commercials on the fly, get subscriptions, and queue downloads.

-fate

[Yoav]

Originally Posted by fatespawn

I run into the same problems with iTivo as I did with TivoDecodeManager. It hangs after 1.67% and won't continue.

It's not another 'fetch' because NowPlaying 2.51 works perfectly. I just wish I could covert to mp4 and edit commercials on the fly, get subscriptions, and queue downloads.

-fate

I would love to help debug this, but I haven't been able to reproduce this yet. (You are not alone, others have reported this problem, and yet for the majority it works).

With 1.3 there should be an 'advanced' preferences option to turn on logging. Can you turn on logging and look at <homedir>/iTiVo.log and /tmp/iTiVoDL-<username>
is there anything interesting in there?

[fatespawn]

When I press "pref" and go to the "advanced" tab, all I see is "update with beta software" and "run when download completes." I don't see an "enable logging."

I see multiple growl notifications about incomplete download, then it hangs for a while, then it finally just stops.

-fate

[fatespawn]

Ok, I downloaded the non-beta version and see the log button. I have duplicated the same results. Where should I send them?

-fate