How to serve video to your TiVo

TiVos are smart little pieces of hardware, but by design can only play TiVo-encoded video files, which is a shame. But if you've ever wanted to do more with your TiVo, you can. Will O'Brien over at our sister site Engadget has penned a great how-to on making your TiVo serve up video files from any networked computer. The keystone of the tutorial is TivoServer, open source software that masquerades as a TiVo and even re-encodes your videos to a TiVo-friendly format on the fly. TivoServer is made for Linux, but will also run on Mac OS X or Windows under Cygwin.

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