December 30, 2004 2:12 PM

stivo said:

I have a ptvupgrade-installed series-1 DirecTiVo (Sony SAT-T60)
running 3.1.0c2-01-1-011 . installation was done 3 months ago.

What is the cleanest way to turn off scrambling for new recordings?

with "DVRchive Client Tools version 1.2" I can extract ty files, but
trying to converting them to anything watchable gives the message:

[INDENT]
Mux'ing (with cuts): c:\cygwin\home\stivo\C.ty
Sorry... Failed to get the first 10 initial chunks...
Have to have at least that many to start the analysis phase...

DiffTime = 0.000000 (0) == 0.000000 Minutes

total = 1310720 (1 MB)

Done with 'c:\cygwin\home\stivo\C.ty'..
[/INDENT]

I presume this means that all the existing recording is encrypted, and
to decode that I'll need to find unscramble.o from somewhere?

Did we install the DVRchive server for you?

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December 30, 2004 7:12 PM

stivo said:

yes, you guys were nice enough to rescue the box after
tivo updated it's software:

Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 15:09:47 -0500
ORDER #: 1871-3400

Ordered:
1 SVC-WARRANTY-RECERT Warranty Repair for DirecTV Software Upgrade Recipients $15.00
1 Manufacturer = Sony $0.00
1 ModelID = SAT-T60 $0.00
1 ModelName = Series1 DirecTV DVR $0.00
1 InstallationType = not applicable $0.00
1 DirecTiVo Software Version (combo units only) = DirecTV Version 3.1.0c-01-1-001 $0.00

Then all the hard stuff has already been done for you; just keep playing with the "client" piece - perhaps save as .mpg rather than ty files. You don't need to mess with any of the software on the TiVo-side

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InstantCake Instructions and Release Notes,
Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
Official PTVnet Discussion Thread