OH NOZ I AM DENIED MY MEDIA FIX

[rmd]

bah. my tivo appears to have toasted itself. i assume it's the drive(s). i had the GSOD (green screen of doom) the other morning, so i let it sit all day and then overnight and now it's stuck in a cycle where it restarts, gets the GSOD after a few moments of the "wait a few more moments" screen, then sits at the GSOD for a while and restarts. lather rinse repeat.

there's only one thing on the tivo that is functionally irreplacable, and honestly, it serves me right for not dumping it to tape/cd/dvd/whatever before this.

i'm letting the tivo cool for a while to see if it's capable of coming back long enough to grab the one or two things i want from it.

next up, investigating INSTACAKE.

edited to add: also, WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY TORX BITS?

Comments

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I gotta tell you, I love the DVR we got thru Comcast. 14.75/month, I never have to deal with crap hardware, took 10 minutes to install, even with our hard to reach cables, and it does everything I need.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yeah, appliances are great. one of the reasons i'm not thinking about a myth-tv box is that i want minimal effort involved.

i've got a lifetime (of the box, not me) tivo service subscription, so there's no recurring cost. and it's provider-agnostic. so it's worth a bit of effort to try and get the tivo live again.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I can see how that would be worth it, but the lifetime no longer exists.Once that's gone I can't see how tivo can compete against comcast this way. 12$/ month for service plus buying a box with a 3year average lifespan vs. 14.75$/ month for rental and service makes Comcast the obvious win to me.

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Instantcake worked like a champ for me. Drop a net card in your Tivo while you're at it, it makes it trivial to archive stuff off. I now have a script that automatically pulls stuff off my Tivo, transcodes it, and puts it up on the web for me to watch via PC. The networked Tivo isn't even hooked to a TV anymore.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i've actually got a net card in the tivo. i love being able to sit at work and say "hey, what can i watch tonite?" and find out immediately. in fact, my first sign something was wrong was that i couldn't connect to the tivo via web even tho it answered pings.

how are you archiving stuff off the tivo via net?

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

I'm using a thing called ETivo, which is a service that runs on a Windows box.

http://www.prish.com/etivo/

[hanseth.livejournal.com]

What on earth is instacake? I suspected it involved making cake from a mix, but another comment made me think I was wrong.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

it's a program to make replacement tivo disks.

[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

Sometimes a Tivo that's botched a software update will do what you're describing. I have no idea if they're doing updates right now... we have a DirecTivo and DirecTV has been complete bastards about (not) providing software updates... we still don't even have folders on ours! :-( But we do have HDTV and glorious video quality, so that makes up for it a bit (and our cable system is crap and doesn't even come to our house, so DirecTV or Dish Network are really our only good TV providers).

I hadn't heard of Instacake... that's good to know... good luck!

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

What did you lose? maybe one of us has it on our tivo and can record it to DVD for you ...

*hugs*

[rmd.livejournal.com]

unlikely. several years ago, claudia had 2 of her 15 minutes of fame on the nightly news as part of a brief interview.

as i say, serves me right for not actually archiving it before this.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

which is to say, not tragic, but merely doofusy.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

Try hooking the drive to another computer and see if you can copy the file off.
There's software to allow this sort of thing, but I think most of it runs only on
winblows. I had to pull a few rabbits out of hats once to save fizzygeek's
recordings from a dying TiVo.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

Dis mean you dint get da Tour da France?????