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Twitter Updates for 2007-11-15

Posted by  on 15 November 2007, 11:59 pm
  • Whew….Finally sitting down. I think I’ll write a blog post for CRT. #
  • HOLY FARKING POOP! @tyr CUT OFF HIS PONYTAIL! BIGGEST NEWS AT THE CON! #
  • @RickMunday Center for Realtor Technology http://realtor.org/crt My dept #
  • post posted…now its time to forage for beer and food. #
  • Hooray for 100 oz cylinders of beer. Both in vegas and at home. #
  • I just left the Venetian for the first time since I got here. Ahhh, the world still exists. #
  • @ddribin You are my QuickLook hero of the day. :) #
  • According to my sources around NAR: "28,350 attendees in Las Vegas" Which is a new record for attendance. #
  • @RickMunday Just buy a mac mini, save yourself the headache. #
  • Why does every computer problem seem to need at least 3 people to fix it. #
  • "What’s blogging? She wants to drink! We thought this was a drinking lounge!" #
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Place shifting action 2

Posted by  on 15 November 2007, 5:50 pm

tivo.jpgI’ve been working on a command-line oriented TiVo2Go downloader so I can automate getting items off my tivo, or at least do it when I’m on the road via ssh (and then kick off that other script…)  I’ve written a quick and dirty TiVo library, and a sample script called TiVo2Disk which uses the library.

On its own, the TiVo library stuff I whipped up will just download the content from the TiVo still locked up in TiVo’s DRM.  If you pair it with tivodecode (like the sample script does) you can get the video as an MPEG-2 stream.  Beware, HD content is HUGE.

I’ve only tested with my Series 3, and I’ve run it under both OS X and Linux, but it should work on any .  The UI on the sample script is pretty bad, but its an early version.  I’m interested in an feedback, patches, etc anyone might have.  I still need to do some rdoc as well.

This works for me, but I’d like it to be more useful for more people.   In any case, feel free to checkout tivo-ruby-0.1.tar.gz.

Filed under Coding, Geek, Linux, OS X, Ruby.
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Place shifting action

Posted by  on 15 November 2007, 5:07 pm

I’ve whipped up a quick ruby script that wraps ffmpeg to turn anything ffmpeg understand into something suitable for watching on an iPhone. It’ll work for a normal iPod too, probably, but I’ve got it fully keyed to the resolution of the iPhone.

Download it and check it out.

(Fear my non-twitter content!)

Filed under Coding, Geek, iPhone, Ruby, Unix.
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