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dausha
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 Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:17 am Post subject: Have old Tivo machine, will travel . . . |
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Okay, my Tivo machine just died and the tech support said the best solution (under my circumstances, YMMV) was to buy a new Tivo. However, I'd like to know if I can get Gentoo running on the Tivo machine and run Freevo. Any experiences?
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klieber
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Do you really want to do this? If it's a series one Tivo, you're sporting a whopping 54MHz of PPC power under the hood. (no, I didn't leave off a zero) Also, Tivo has custom chips used for encoding and decoding of the video -- I doubt very much that the drivers for those are freely available anywhere. I won't say getting Gentoo on there is impossible, but boy howdy, it's gonna be hard.
What failed about the Tivo? Just the hard drive? Do you have a friend w/ a tivo and, if so, can you perhaps make an image of their HDD?
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MPauley
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Check out tivocommunity.com or dealdatabase.com forums on more info. Or, I'll give you $5 for it (and I didn't leave off a zero either  )
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mnxAlpha
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| Quote: | | I doubt very much that the drivers for those are freely available anywhere. |
Really? Well, the TiVo actually runs Linux and, in accordance with the GPL...
http://www.tivo.com/linux/linux.asp
That's probably enough to get the kernel and the hardware up and running. However, it likely won't do very much beyond that. Exactly what you can do with it depends on how much non-standard stuff TiVo added. If the video capture device uses standard Video4Linux APIs, for example, you might be able to get fairly standard software running on it. I doubt you'd be able to get Freevo running on it though - Freevo's system requirements are well beyond what the TiVo has. |
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