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    Can't extract shows

    hi, tivo newbie here...bought the tivo of a friend, everything works great, i thought 120gb was enough for my tivo, but already run out of space, tried to copy recorded programmes to pc, but without any luck...all I get is a partial download(file size ranges from 5kb - 5mb) of any programme I try to download.
    Using tyshow...i can refresh & get the now showing list, but when i select a prog. to upload to pc, it just downloads the first few seconds and thats it.

    Can someone please help me with this?
    Thanks
    -wt

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    Hi Wt,

    Welcome to the Group.

    I have moved your post to a more appropriate location, as your issue doesn't really apply to installing the image and also not NZ specific, this is a better location to recieve replies from a wider community.

    Peter.
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    Now as far as your question goes, what method are you using to transfer the shows?

    For example do you have a network card in your TiVo and if so do you know what type (Airnet,Turbonet(or compatibles),Cachecard) or do you use a serial cable.

    Peter.
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    thanks for the welcome pete.. Im using a network card, that is connected to my router via a switch. Don't know what network card I have, it was already installed.

    The process I used to try & extract is from this guide: http://www.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/V...deoUsingTytool

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    There is something we can do if your TiVo is using a turbonet style card, but won't work with a cachecard

    To see which you have try this in Telnet.

    [TiVo [p0] ~]# lsmod
    Post the results here.

    Peter.
    Please search this forum and our Website for your TiVo questions before starting a new thread. Thanks!

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    thanks for the reply...heres the output i get:

    Code:
    turbonet                6976   0 (unused)
    mixaud                  5872   1
    palmod                  9840   0 (unused)
    pxmpegdecode           65484   0 (unused)
    therm                   1228   0 (unused)
    fan                     1312   0
    fpga7114              146620   5 [palmod]
    i2c                    10368   0 [palmod pxmpegdecode therm fpga7114]

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    Ok, you have a regular Turbonet style card.


    now to check your timings, try:

    [TiVo [p0] ~]# cat /etc/oztivo.conf
    Peter.
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    [TiVo [p1] ~]# cat /etc/oztivo.conf

    Output:

    Code:
    # OzTiVo menu configuration settings file
    # Please do not edit this file
    # Put the TiVo disk back in your PC to reconfigure
    nic=TurboNet
    ip=DHCP
    mac=00:0B:AD:10:10:10
    hostname=oztivo
    modem=0
    pppondss=0
    netmask=
    gateway=
    ssid=
    wep=
    wepkey=

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    Ok, now try:

    [TiVo [p0] ~]# rw
    [TiVo [p0] ~]# echo "timing=16" >> /etc/oztivo.conf
    [TiVo [p0] ~]# ro
    [TiVo [p0] ~]# reboot
    Give the TiVo a little while to setlle after the reboot, then try the transfers again.

    Peter
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    Quote Originally Posted by war_timmins View Post
    hi, tivo newbie here...bought the tivo of a friend, everything works great, i thought 120gb was enough for my tivo, but already run out of space, tried to copy recorded programmes to pc, but without any luck...all I get is a partial download(file size ranges from 5kb - 5mb) of any programme I try to download.
    Using tyshow...i can refresh & get the now showing list, but when i select a prog. to upload to pc, it just downloads the first few seconds and thats it.

    Can someone please help me with this?
    Thanks
    -wt
    I had the same thing and fixed it by changing the option in TYtools from double socket connection to single socket. The socket fix didn't work for my friend though.

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