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TiVo Hacks
By Raffi  Krikorian
Publisher	: O'Reilly
Pub Date	: August 2003
ISBN	: 0-596-00553-9

		Copyright
		Credits
			About the Author
			Contributors
		Preface
			What Is a TiVo?
			How to Use This Book
			Caveat Hacker
			How This Book Is Organized
			Conventions Used in This Book
			How to Contact Us
		Chapter 1.   TiVo Remote Control Hacks
			Section 1.1.   Hacks #1-19
			Section 1.2.   Remote Control Hacks
			Section 1.3.   Backdoor Hacks
			Hack  1.   Swinging TiVo
			Hack  2.   Must-Skim TV
			Hack  3.   Navigation Shortcuts
			Hack  4.   The 30-Second Skip
			Hack  5.   An Onscreen Clock
			Hack  6.   Making the Play Bar Disappear Faster
			Hack  7.   What's Your TiVo Doing?
			Hack  8.   Opening the Backdoor
			Hack  9.   Italicizing Everything
			Hack  10.   Sorting the Now Playing List
			Hack  11.   Turning Off Overshoot Protection
			Hack  12.   Controlling Overshoot Protection
			Hack  13.   Pushing Fast Forward to Eleven
			Hack  14.   Viewing Suggestions in the To Do List
			Hack  15.   Viewing "Hidden" Recordings
			Hack  16.   Activating the Node Navigator
			Hack  17.   Enabling Advanced WishLists
			Hack  18.   Turning Off the TiVo Software
			Hack  19.   Applaud the TiVo Team
		Chapter 2.   Adding More Hours
			Section 2.1.   Hacks #20-28
			Section 2.2.   Basic Assumptions
			Section 2.3.   Gathering Some Information
			Section 2.4.   Getting Everything Together
			Hack  20.   Opening the Box
			Hack  21.   Removing TiVo's Hard Drive or Drives
			Hack  22.   Installing TiVo's Hard Drive in Your PC
			Hack  23.   Using MFS Tools for Backup and Restore
			Hack  24.   Backing Up Your TiVo Software
			Hack  25.   Restoring from Backup
			Hack  26.   Adding a Second Drive the Quick-n-Dirty Way
			Hack  27.   Putting TiVo's Drives Back
			Hack  28.   Testing Your TiVo's New Capacity
		Chapter 3.   The TiVo Shell
			Section 3.1.   Hacks #29-46
			Hack  29.   Mounting and Working with TiVo's Drive Partitions
			Hack  30.   Enabling Bash over the Serial Port
			Hack  31.   Copying Unix Binaries to TiVo
			Hack  32.   Clean Up and Shut Down
			Hack  33.   Connecting to TiVo Serially
			Hack  34.   Installing Unix Binaries on TiVo
			Hack  35.   Poking Around
			Hack  36.   Moving Stuff to and from Your TiVo
			Hack  37.   Installing the less Pager on Your TiVo
			Hack  38.   Text Editing with vi on Your TiVo
			Hack  39.   Text Editing with Emacs on Your TiVo
			Hack  40.   Displaying Images on Your TV
			Hack  41.   Putting Text on the Screen
			Hack  42.   Capturing Closed Captioning
			Hack  43.   Caller ID on Your TV
			Hack  44.   Running the Same Thing Over and Over...
			Hack  45.   Save Multiple Shows at a Time to Your VCR
			Hack  46.   Playing MP3s on your TiVo
		Chapter 4.   Bring the Internet to TiVo
			Section 4.1.   Hacks #47-62
			Hack  47.   Running PPP over TiVo's Serial Port
			Hack  48.   Accept a PPP Connection from TiVo on Your PC
			Hack  49.   Getting Your TiVo Series 1 Online
			Hack  50.   Getting Your TiVo Series 2 Online
			Hack  51.   Figuring Out Your TiVo's IP Address
			Hack  52.   Getting Telnet to Your Ethernet-Enabled TiVo
			Hack  53.   Fetching Files from the Web
			Hack  54.   wget Things from the Web
			Hack  54.   Setting Up an FTP server
			Hack  56.   Using the Same Filesystem
			Hack  57.   Reading Email on Your TiVo
			Hack  58.   Using the TiVo Control Station
			Hack  59.   Turning Your TV into a Virtual Window
			Hack  60.   Streaming Internet Audio Broadcasts to TiVo
			Hack  61.   Watching Your Email
			Hack  62.   Listen to Your Email
		Chapter 5.   TiVo and the Web
			Section 5.1.   Hacks #63-80
			Hack  63.   Signing Up for the Home Media Option
			Hack  64.   Remotely Scheduling a Recording Through the HMO
			Hack  65.   TiVoWeb, a Web Interface to Your TiVo
			Hack  66.   Scheduling a Recording with TiVoWeb
			Hack  67.   What's on and beyond the To Do List?
			Hack  68.   Deleting Scheduled Recordings
			Hack  69.   Undeleting Recordings
			Hack  70.   Renaming Recordings
			Hack  71.   Editing Season Passes
			Hack  72.   Emulating the TiVo Remote
			Hack  73.   Emulating TiVo's Screens
			Hack  74.   Using TiVo Mail
			Hack  75.   Changing Channel Logos
			Hack  76.   Automatically Assigning All Logos
			Hack  77.   Creating Your Own Custom Logos
			Hack  78.   Dropping New Extensions into TiVoWeb
			Hack  79.   Starting TiVoWeb with TiVo
			Hack  80.   Putting Your TiVo on the Web
		Chapter 6.   Working with Videos
			Section 6.1.   Hacks #81-87
			Section 6.2.   Limitations
			Hack  81.   Pulling Video from Your TiVo over FTP
			Hack  82.   Pulling Video from Your TiVo via Web Interface
			Hack  83.   Playing Extracted Video
			Hack  84.   Streaming Video Directly from TiVo
			Hack  85.   Converting Extracted Video
			Hack  86.   Putting Videos Back into TiVo
			Hack  87.   Moving Shows Between TiVo Units
		Chapter 7.   Writing Code
			Section 7.1.   Hacks #88-100
			Section 7.2.   A Crash Course in Tcl
			Hack  88.   Navigating the Media Filesystem
			Hack  89.   Inspecting MFS Objects
			Hack  90.   Extracting Your Now Showing List
			Hack  91.   Discovering Your Favorite Actors
			Hack  92.   Discovering Your Favorite Writers, Producers, and Directors
			Hack  93.   Turning Favorites Lists into JavaScript
			Hack  94.   How Do You Watch TV?
			Hack  95.   Browsing Through TiVo's Resources
			Hack  96.   Making Recordings Start Late and End Early
			Hack  97.   Editing Resources with a Point and a Click
			Hack  98.   Catching TiVo Events
			Hack  99.   Disabling the Live TV button
			Hack  100.   Cross-Compiling C Code for TiVo
		Colophon
		Index

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