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February 19, 2002 12:46 AM

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blackwolf5710

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I have my Tivo working great with the TivoNet. I am now experimenting with video extraction, etc.

Question: What benefit is there for getting NFS going on this thing? I have other Linux/Unix boxes around that I can use but...for what??

Is it true that you can use an external Linux/Unix NFS volume as a local mount on the TIVO allowing the Tivo to use the external space for it's recording? If so, THAT would be a huge benefit as it virtually means endless Tivo recording space. If this is possible, can anyone explaign how to do it or let me know of a site that has this info?


QUESTION 2: Where are the tyStreams (recorded video) stored on the Tivo? I looked all through the volumes that are mounted but can't find them.

Thanks,

Blackwolf5710

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February 22, 2002 1:13 PM

The only benefit I've seen to adding an NFS mount to TiVo is a simpler process for adding/updating binaries and scripts to the TiVo unit itself.

I attempted to extract a stream to the NFS mounted partition and it simply took way too long. As it stands, on my Sony SA I get just under 1MB/second transfer via TivoApp+sendstream, thus an hour Best Quality (~2.5GB) takes just under 50 minutes to transfer.

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February 22, 2002 1:15 PM

Forgot to mention, assuming you haven't already figured it out, the streams are stored in the what are known as the MFS partitions and are not directly accesible via standard file I/O tools. Instead, tools such as ExtractStream and sendstream perform the neccessary direct disk access to extract the stream data.

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