PyTiVo | Stream video from your PC to your TiVo | Makes TiVo a media extender

Posted Jan 6th 2007 5:22PM by Chris Tew
Filed under: News, Software, TiVo, Home Networking, Streaming

I have just found a piece of software that claims to allow you to stream most videos from your PC to an unhacked TiVo over a home network connection.

The software is called pyTiVo and according to the web page where the software is available from it uses the HMO server protocol and will try to guess the aspect ratio of your video and try to pad it as necessary.

However, it will not transcode an mpeg that is supported by your TiVo. Details on which video formats are supported have not been given.

If this software works well it effectively makes TiVo a media extender, which is something I think TiVo should be looking to do for real.

Reader Comments

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1. Sounds like a neat use for a TiVo - the only thing I don't like is the name. I'm a big fan of Python, but this needs a much more descriptive name with meaning, because the app itself has nothing to do with Python besides being written in it.

Posted at 11:00PM on Jan 6th 2007 by coyotej

2. Galleon has done this for a while (http://www.galleon.tv/). I use it to effectively extend the recording capacity of my Tivo for shows I don't watch regularly by automatically transferring some shows to my home server and then having them available to stream back on demand.

Posted at 3:46PM on Jan 8th 2007 by David

3. The advantage of pyTivo is that you can store your files in xvid or divx format, which uses MUCH less disk space than native TiVo files. And you can watch shows which have been downloaded instead of just shows recorded on your TiVo.

Posted at 11:53PM on Jan 8th 2007 by Matt

4. Too bad the documentation is almost non-existent.

Also, I agree that TiVo should be looking at providing this functionality themselves. This is just what I've been looking for.

Posted at 4:54PM on Jan 16th 2007 by Ted

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