In the grander scheme of things, should this get a decent amount of press, it’s a black eye for TiVo… Which could dissuade potential content providers from partnering and/or dissuade CableLabs from supporting multi-room viewing and TiVoToGo features on the Series3, despite protected media (TiVoCast, Macrovision flagged stuff) not being available for TTG transfers. Image is everything.
UPDATE: I can verify this works on Mac OS X. And it works fast! I’ll have the first draft of a step-by-step guide up tomorrow for those who need a little hand holding (as I did). Secondly, if you have a DVD-burning TiVo your output files (of 0.1.2) will not playback audio. However, the developer has provided me a patch which corrects that issue. I assume he’ll integrate it into the app or provide a separate download shortly. Lastly, I can’t imagine we’re more than a few days away from a Mac front-end — all it would need to know is where the program lives, where the .tivo file lives, and what you want to name the output file. Someone should be able to whip this up in an hour or so. Along those lines, I begged Leon to come out of retirement and integrate this functionality into Galleon.
UPDATE 2: I’ve posted a brief guide to get Mac users on track. We’ll probably only need this for a few days, until someone more clever than I automates this and/or creates a GUI front-end.
(Thanks, half.italian!)
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Yeah,
I can see this as harming the future functionality of Tivo2Go.
Now instead of working on the new release of the software with all the new features, they will be scrambling to fix this hole.
I REALLY hope this does not stifle work on getting HM features for S3's going..
I say leave well enough alone, and keep this command line only. Leave the point-and-clickers in the cold since that is all anyone is really concerned about. As soon as it is easy enough for them to use, it will go south for us all.
I don't see this hindering multi-room viewing on the S3, but it could certainly be the kiss of death for TiVoToGo for the S3.
On the other hand, given that Windows users are the vast majority of the market, and they've been able to do this easily via other methods already, this may not matter one way or the other.