Tivo, Internet Archive, and GlitchTV
Worship the Glitch (WTG) has a great post about finding free MPEG2 content online to stream to your updated TiVo. The Internet Archive is a huge repository aiming to be the world's library, with the goal of capturing and curating all human knowledge. Part of the Archive is their immense video library, which includes MPEG2 versions of all sorts of public domain, freely licensed, and open source movies.
WTG has offered a useful new service, GlitchTV. It's a daily feed featuring a movie from the Archive. Coupled with some podcasting software mentioned in the post, you could have automated nightly downloads of every movie in the GlitchTV feed delivered to your PC. Then it'd just be a matter of firing up your TiVo each night to see what wacky new movie awaits viewing.
Wow, that seems really cool. I just started today to play around with moving .mpg files to the TiVo and have been amzed at how easy it has gone. Going to be really cool to have a library of stuff to check out.
Posted by: Dylan | August 24, 2005 at 07:40 PM
unfortunately you cannot stream content directly from online to Tivo (the post makes it sound like you can). you must download the entire mpeg2 to your drive first (the files are huge too).
you should mention that the p2p networks will be absolutely flooded with (converted) .tivo files now.
hopefully more mpeg2 content will become available (CNN? ESPN?) online soon.
Posted by: gman | August 24, 2005 at 07:42 PM
"the post makes it sound like you can"
I tried to make it clear that using some automatic download software designed for big files you can make this a painless operation, but it still requires huge downloads of the movies.
Posted by: Matt Haughey | August 24, 2005 at 11:54 PM
the big file issue is going to be temporary....i think. but that's why you need to leave your systems churning and downloading this shit all day.
i'm going to try to find smaller files to put on the feed. perhaps i'll stick to shorts until this all gets figured out.
the feature is new, give the net a few days to figure it all out.
-glitch p-udding
http://worshiptheglitch.com
Posted by: glitch p-udding | August 25, 2005 at 07:36 AM
For what it's worth, Tivo's new MPEG2 playback works perfectly with BeyondTV's recorded files. The video is smooth and the picture is pretty good.
Posted by: Chris Karr | August 25, 2005 at 06:15 PM
What a cool site. I never knew this existed! Thanks!
Todd Lokken
Posted by: Todd Lokken | December 20, 2005 at 07:35 AM