Transfer Video to Tivo

April 12th, 2008 | by Le Administrator |

I am not a big TV fan, but Chad’s recent article on OpenSourcePenguin.net might be valuable to some.

Written by Chad Auld
Apr 11, 2008 at 09:02 PM

Every so often I have the need and/or the desire to move some local videos on to my Tivo. These could be home movies, videos I have downloaded off the web via bittorrent, etc. I’ve messed with a variety of solutions over the years, but for my own records and perhaps for your benefit I thought I’d just document it here.

The tools I am using the most these days for this task are Galleon and VLC.

Galleon is a free open source media server for the Tivo DVR which allows you to enjoy many kinds of content and interactive applications right on your TV. The server runs on your home computer and organizes your media collection so that they can be viewed on your home network. Galleon also brings Internet content and applications to your TV.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

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The rest is here.