MythTVfs:

This is a FUSE (http://fuse.sf.net/) server that was designed to communicate with a MythTV backend server. It creates an overlay filesystem that encodes TV Program metadata (title, episode, description) into a filename so that system that do not natively talk to MythTV can still get information about a given show. The initial design goal is to make it compatible with the in-filename metadata extraction capabilities that will (hopefully) be in future versions of Galleon (http://galleon.sf.net/).

Thanks to EBF on TiVoCommunity.com:

If you go to the To Do List and find a show that will be clipped (marked with a * next to the time). Select the program and pick Change Recording Options. Under Start/Stop Recording you should see that the show will be clipped. Change this to Start/Stop On Time. Save your changes. You should then see the conflict confirmation screen offering to clip the other show. Now the other show will be the one clipped instead!

That’s a pretty neat trick. Especially when the end of a program is going to be clipped – usually better to clip the start of the next instead.

TiVo released the 7.2 software a couple of months ago, and that introduced network Guided Setup, which completely eliminated the need for a phone line. However, the retail channel is still packed with pre-7.2 boxes. But there is a way to tell if you’ll need that phone line or not without opening the box and booting the TiVo:

There’s two ways to tell if the box contains the 7.2.1 update, which does not require a land line.

The first way is to look at the UPC label. If it’s marked “SS” in front of the UPC code then it contains the latest software version.

The second is to look at the text on the carton messaging around the phone line which will mention different requirements. The carton text reads:

You get: Instructions, TiVo Remote, Cables, TiVo DVR.
You’ll also need the easy-to-use TiVo service plus your existing phone line or broadband connection. You’ll need to activate and connect to the TiVo service through your existing phone line or via your existing wired/wireless home network* and broadband connection.

Remember, if you’re setting up a new unit on a network you need a supported adapter: http://www.tivo.com/adapters or http://www.tivo.com/getready

A lot of people will probably be getting TiVos for the holidays this year – and a lot of them will probably have questions and issues getting them setup and really using the features. If the members of this community drop a mention of tivolovers into their own LJs, it may help more people find the community (and the resource list on the info page), so we can help them out. Spread the word, let people know we exist. You can also refer people to http://www.gizmolovers.com/ outside of LJ, or http://www.gizmolovers.com/info goes right to the resource list.

Digital video recording pioneer ReplayTV plans to announce on Monday it will start selling software to allow personal computers to tune in and record live television next year in a deal with Hauppauge Digital’s Hauppauge Computer Works.

Furthermore:

A company spokeswoman said ReplayTV will complete its transformation from a hardware manufacturer to a DVR software and services provider with the sale of all remaining 5500 Series DVR models, probably by the end of 2005.

I’ve suspected this for a while now. DNNA gutted ReplayTV of most of the engineering staff and stopped developing any new hardware a couple of years ago. Software development for the hardware platform also dried up over a year ago. It looks like they’ve basically written new PC based software that they’ll be marketing under the ReplayTV brand. I doubt it uses much, if any, of the code from the units since that ran on specialized hardware and an embedded real-time OS. Running as a Windows application is a different environment all-together. And they’re entering a market already filled with successful products, not to mention the 800 pound Gorilla that is Windows Media Center Edition. I can’t see them being too successful, but the name may help a bit.