Stream, Baby, Stream

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Over the past few months I’ve dabbled with tivostream to send MP4-encoded video to my HD TiVo boxes, but usually I rely upon pyTivo to watch my video library.

Tonight, kearygriffin over on the TiVo Community Forum announced streambaby (Stream, Baby, Stream) which builds on and extends what moyekj started with tivostream. As with its predecessor, streambaby can stream MP4 video to a Series3 platform TiVo (S3, THD, THD-XL), but by using ffmpeg it can also stream other video formats (like WMV or MKV). You can also fast-forward to points in the video that have not been buffered yet and it will show you a preview screenshot while the buffer loads and the stream picks up … true random access! It will even remember where you left off and allow you to resume the stream later. Very cool!

After a quick test run on my Ubuntu server to confirm the basic functionality, I turned to getting streambaby to run through Galleon. I posted my quick and dirty results here (there may be a more elegant way of doing this, but for now this works for me).

You can download streambaby yourself here … check it out.

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