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[JimH]

The MJ 9 Preview V has the beginning of TiVo functionality.  

You will need a fast machine and it will eventually die, but you can do this:

Start TV, put it in full screen mode.  Then press the pause button (upper left).  It may object, saying you don't have anything to compress with, but that's OK.  It will begin recording and continue until you press the Play button again.  The icons may not look right, but it will work.  The same button pauses and resumes.

Don't leave it paused or it could fill up your drive.  It will write to disk for one hour and then stop.

Thanks to Yaobing for this minor miracle.

[Doof]

TiVo will only pause TV for a half hour.

By default. There are ways to get it to boot into Linux in order to change that.

So if you find that one hour is too much, a half hour should be plenty to keep you up to snuff with TiVo.

Of course the real power of TiVo is the program data, season passes, etc.

[Griff]

Where is the Tivo file being written to?

Could not find anything on it.

Thanks
Griff

[JimH]

Griff, did you get it to work?  Pause and resume working?

The file should be in a directory called c:\video.

[Griff]

Thanks JimH

I found where they were.
There is an option, when you rt ck on the TV screen for it.
It looks like it is working (pause and resume).
Sound card locks up with it.
Pic is streched from top to bottom.

Griff

[peleton]

Does MJ 9 work other TV cards now?
ie: I have a  BT848 card, which wasn't supported by MJ8.

Also, how fast is fast? My PC is 733MHz (Athlon). Is that fast  enough these days?

I have actually not been able to get my TV-tuner card working at all since I switched from MS Windows 98 to Win XP. (no drivers)
    -although I must admit I didn't try too hard to find a way around this (it's been almost a year now), so if MJ 9 can't give me TV yet, then I don't suppose anyone knows of a way to get on of these old TV-cards going under Win XP?

Thanks
peleton

[Griff]

JimH

You might want to warn people that these Tivo files are not being erased, at this point in time, on exit.

Thanks
Griff

[Ingo]

Hi peleton,

have a look at http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/ . This is a general bt8x8 driver that works great for my card and seems to be ok with mj. (I don't use MJ for TV viewing... at least not yet)

when I still had my 'old' Duron 700 I already used my pc in a TiVo like manner. So a Athlon 700 should be ok..... (try to get some kind of an MJPEG codec. They are usualy fast and don't eat up too much CPU time.)

Ingo

[Kurt Young]

Hooray!  Now here's a feature that I can get excited about!  (Not having a digital camera, the jpg support doesn't get me that excited...)  

TV-Recording on my pc has, in the past, been aggrivating... either the files are huge or they're terrible quality.  And the whole process was very underdocumented.  Three cheers for MJ-Tivo!  I can't wait to try it!

[Doof]

Will MJ support screencaps of TV images?

[zevele10]

Not yet a 9 tester,but may have try this week.
I saw today a hardware/software for watching TV and "rip" it to hard drive.

What do you do with the files?You just can play them on your computer?Can you "burn" it to cd?

There is a way to keep music and erease pictures? ?

[JimH]

We're currently saving to AVI files which can be played in MJ, but it will also be able to compress at the same time and we'll make sure that the file can be played in MJ.

Yes, they can be burned on a CD (for personal use).  The files are big.

[JimH]

Will MJ support screencaps of TV images?

Should not be a problem to add.