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hi is there a way to move recording from one tivo to an other
i have two networked tivos and would like to move the recored programs from one tivo to the other is this an easy thing to do ?
or is there a way to see the programs on tivo 1 from tivo 2 and play them ?

You can use the excellent Sync Now Playing hack, but be warned that installing it is not for the faint hearted

Or you can do the steam way: a scart lead and press play & record. Pr'aps a bit boring and slow though!

BLINKING FLIP!!!
THAT'S AMAZING!!

With this you would have two TiVos acting list media servers for each other!!

We are truly living in the future!

johnscott99 wrote:We are truly living in the future!

Even way back in 2004...

I love the idea of recordings in Now Playing serving for Menu items that you can 'select' by playing the item. Hadn't really read much about it before now, as I 'only' have 1 TiVo.

It's the way you tell 'em!

Brother52 wrote:You can use the excellent Sync Now Playing hack, but be warned that installing it is not for the faint hearted

I have a faint recollection that back at the time Stuart created this, there was also talk of a similar feature which would access recordings stored on a (non-tivo) file server? Did anything ever come of that?

Having read the thread on DDB, I'm also wondering what happened to the idea of using the Showcases menu instead. That would be really nice.

gcobb wrote:

Brother52 wrote:You can use the excellent Sync Now Playing hack, but be warned that installing it is not for the faint hearted

I have a faint recollection that back at the time Stuart created this, there was also talk of a similar feature which would access recordings stored on a (non-tivo) file server? Did anything ever come of that?

There was such talk; it could be done in principle but I have no idea if anyone ever made it work. I didn't.

I must confess that the Sync Now Playing hack was more of an intellectual challenge than a practical hack. It was certainly only suitable for those who liked to tinker with their TiVos at least as much as watch programmes on them!

chrispayne wrote:hi is there a way to move recording from one tivo to an other
i have two networked tivos and would like to move the recored programs from one tivo to the other

Another way to do it would be to install mfs_ftp on both tivos. Then extract the recording from tivo1 as a .ty+ file via ftp to an intermediate PC/fileserver, then upload it to tivo2. In theory you could transfer the recording direct from tivo1 to tivo2, but it wouldn't be fast.

poppadum wrote:Another way to do it would be to install mfs_ftp on both tivos. Then extract the recording from tivo1 as a .ty+ file via ftp to an intermediate PC/fileserver, then upload it to tivo2. In theory you could transfer the recording direct from tivo1 to tivo2, but it wouldn't be fast.

I tried this but my 2nd tivo shows all the ty & ty+ folders with a red symbol in the lower right corner - small icons so I'm guessing it's a "!" or an "X" - either way it's saying this folder is not writable.
I use cyberduck ftp (yes I'm a mac user) does anyone know how to set up the 2nd tivo so the folders can be written to?(guess I could just telnet into it and type "rw" at the prompt but there must be a way to do this from within the ftp program.

At moment my 1st tivo is in a loop of the green screen of terror (GSoT) so I may be a while before I can try any suggestions.

Gaz

poppadum wrote:

chrispayne wrote:hi is there a way to move recording from one tivo to an other
i have two networked tivos and would like to move the recored programs from one tivo to the other

Another way to do it would be to install mfs_ftp on both tivos. Then extract the recording from tivo1 as a .ty+ file via ftp to an intermediate PC/fileserver, then upload it to tivo2. In theory you could transfer the recording direct from tivo1 to tivo2, but it wouldn't be fast.

Which is exactly what my hack does, only it does it through the TiVo interface, using some jiggery pokery that I was quite pleased with at the time.

TiVo to TiVo is faster than via PC as that's a two step process - the limiting factor is the upload to the TiVo which is substantially slower than the download unless you tweak it so hard that the TiVo playback performance is degraded.

dragonlord666 wrote:

poppadum wrote:Another way to do it would be to install mfs_ftp on both tivos. Then extract the recording from tivo1 as a .ty+ file via ftp to an intermediate PC/fileserver, then upload it to tivo2. In theory you could transfer the recording direct from tivo1 to tivo2, but it wouldn't be fast.

I tried this but my 2nd tivo shows all the ty & ty+ folders with a red symbol in the lower right corner - small icons so I'm guessing it's a "!" or an "X" - either way it's saying this folder is not writable.
I use cyberduck ftp (yes I'm a mac user) does anyone know how to set up the 2nd tivo so the folders can be written to?(guess I could just telnet into it and type "rw" at the prompt but there must be a way to do this from within the ftp program.

At moment my 1st tivo is in a loop of the green screen of terror (GSoT) so I may be a while before I can try any suggestions.

Gaz

Many of those questions don't make a lot of sense if you're doing it right!

You can't telnet in; none of the directories you see are real; they are just mfs_ftp's way of showing you what's in the Now Showing database in a format FTP clients can understand.

Try uploading to the root directory rather then the ty+ etc ones, I have half a mind that mfs_ftp will put the files in the right "folders" for you.

what I meant was telnet into tivo and set file system to "RW" then open the ftp session to see if that made it writeable. unless there is a way to set the system to writeable from within cyderduck - not much point trying to upload a stream when the file system is locked shut. if the "folder" has a "X" or no entry sign on it I cannot write to it.

Or maybe it's just you can't have two sessions open in cyberduck!! if so then I guess it's download to laptop, then disconnect from 1 tivo, connect to other tivo, upload from laptop.


Still I can't try this until the weekend as Tivo has the green screen of Death (and yes, it's been looping for nearly 9 hours as I type this)
will leave it over night but doubt it will fix itself - looks like I need to rip the drive out, format it (loosing all my programs etc) and reinstall the AltEPG image.

Gaz