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I want to acess YouTube.com on my Tivo

Discussion in 'TiVo Coffee House - TiVo Discussion' started by control-z, Sep 14, 2007.

  1. Sep 14, 2007 #1 of 6
    control-z

    control-z New Member

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    I know it should be technically possible, has anyone found a Tivo HME app to do this? I'm talking live browsing of the Youtube.com site, not uploading converted FLV files to my Tivo.
     
  2. Sep 14, 2007 #2 of 6
    Turtleboy

    Turtleboy Well-Known Member TCF Club

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    No, but an apple tv does it pretty well.
     
  3. Sep 14, 2007 #3 of 6
    MikeMar

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    or a wii :D
     
  4. Sep 14, 2007 #4 of 6
    megazone

    megazone Hardcore TiVo Geek

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    How exactly would be be technically possible? HME can't display video. So you might be able to browse the site as with a web browser using some HME app that loaded the web page, took a snapshot as an image, then served that static image to the TiVo. But you wouldn't be able to access any of the video, so what would be the point of surfing YouTube?
     
  5. Sep 14, 2007 #5 of 6
    lelele

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    I think he is thinking about using an HMO HME combo. Like Galleon ToGo and Videocasting work.
    I have been trying to edit Galleon Videocasting to enable that but there are many hard things about it. (note: I am no Developer only a hobbyist)
     
  6. Sep 14, 2007 #6 of 6
    classicsat

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    It could work, with a lot of futzing, PC conversion, and waiting for conversion and download to occur.

    It is jsut the TiVo itself doesn't have the horsepower to play flv video, and it virtually a hardware MPEG2 system.
     

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