Comments on: Tivo should license their tech to the web space http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/tivo-should-license-their-tech-to-the-web-space/ Web development and new media observations Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:02:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DVR functionality on the web? | Michael Kimsal's weblog http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/tivo-should-license-their-tech-to-the-web-space/comment-page-1/#comment-68661 DVR functionality on the web? | Michael Kimsal's weblog Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:26:36 +0000 http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/?p=640#comment-68661 [...] in their player. Good to see it, and I just felt like posting that I did call this out as a need last fall :)  It’s not quite what I was hoping for just yet, but it sounds like they’re moving [...] [...] in their player. Good to see it, and I just felt like posting that I did call this out as a need last fall :)   It’s not quite what I was hoping for just yet, but it sounds like they’re moving [...]

]]> By: MPS http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/tivo-should-license-their-tech-to-the-web-space/comment-page-1/#comment-52649 MPS Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:41:25 +0000 http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/?p=640#comment-52649 Yeah, no doubt it's possible to do this, and I agree it's odd they haven't done it already. Perhaps there are DRM concerns at play here? Who knows. Yeah, no doubt it’s possible to do this, and I agree it’s odd they haven’t done it already. Perhaps there are DRM concerns at play here? Who knows.

]]> By: mgkimsal http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/tivo-should-license-their-tech-to-the-web-space/comment-page-1/#comment-52641 mgkimsal Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:32:14 +0000 http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/?p=640#comment-52641 http://news.softpedia.com/news/Leaked-TiVo-Series3-Specs-Prices-and-Photo-Hit-the-Web-60180.shtml All I could find on short notice, but a Tivo Series 3 (latest and greatest) has 128M of RAM. That's it. Yeah, some have larger hard drives, but these are current. Our Tivos from a few year ago probably have something like a 80 gig drive, if that. The big diff arguably is that there's dedicated hardware decoders and a 'regular' PC wouldn't have that. The 'buffering' feature in a Flash player, for example, could be something that's only enabled if the player determines the system has adequate speed and resources to do it, imo. Booting up a Tivo takes a LONG time - usually 5-10 minutes, sometimes longer (just had to reboot the other day). Things like Windows Media Center and MythTV are much much faster, and are dealing with full screen stuff. I'm just talking about the little youtube videos have a buffer/pause/rewind feature. A 'skip back 10 seconds' would be great too - trying to click back using the slider is awkward at best. Well, we don't even have sliders to slide in 'live streaming video' but if it was buffered, you'd need that if you skipped back. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Leaked-TiVo-Series3-Specs-Prices-and-Photo-Hit-the-Web-60180.shtml

All I could find on short notice, but a Tivo Series 3 (latest and greatest) has 128M of RAM. That’s it. Yeah, some have larger hard drives, but these are current. Our Tivos from a few year ago probably have something like a 80 gig drive, if that.

The big diff arguably is that there’s dedicated hardware decoders and a ‘regular’ PC wouldn’t have that. The ‘buffering’ feature in a Flash player, for example, could be something that’s only enabled if the player determines the system has adequate speed and resources to do it, imo.

Booting up a Tivo takes a LONG time – usually 5-10 minutes, sometimes longer (just had to reboot the other day). Things like Windows Media Center and MythTV are much much faster, and are dealing with full screen stuff. I’m just talking about the little youtube videos have a buffer/pause/rewind feature. A ’skip back 10 seconds’ would be great too – trying to click back using the slider is awkward at best. Well, we don’t even have sliders to slide in ‘live streaming video’ but if it was buffered, you’d need that if you skipped back.

]]> By: MPS http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/tivo-should-license-their-tech-to-the-web-space/comment-page-1/#comment-52640 MPS Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:25:51 +0000 http://michaelkimsal.com/blog/?p=640#comment-52640 I don't know much about how streaming video players are implemented but I'd imagine this would consume a lot of memory (either RAM or disk) in order to store the video as it's being viewed. Set top boxes are optimized for this task while desktop computers are not. Still, I agree some easy option for archiving some window of the video stream would be a nice feature. You can probably already "hijack" a video stream with some 3rd party app, similar to Audio Hijack for the Mac (which is AWESOME btw), but it should be built into the player itself, ideally. I don’t know much about how streaming video players are implemented but I’d imagine this would consume a lot of memory (either RAM or disk) in order to store the video as it’s being viewed. Set top boxes are optimized for this task while desktop computers are not.

Still, I agree some easy option for archiving some window of the video stream would be a nice feature. You can probably already “hijack” a video stream with some 3rd party app, similar to Audio Hijack for the Mac (which is AWESOME btw), but it should be built into the player itself, ideally.

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