Geekfishing Blog

Grrr, So being a simple soul, all I want to do is watch my Tivo'd programs on my laptop on airplanes - Not too much to ask one would think. Here's what I been through so far :
Get Tivotogo working - CHECK - took a while (3 days) for the s/w to download from Tivo Control and the tivo box has got a bit sluggish on channel changing since the upgrade.
Get Tivo box networked - CHECK - went the WiFi route owing to lack of house cabling and took me three WiFi compatible USB (1.0) dongles to get it working.
Get programs transferred to PC - CHECK - Takes twice as long to transfer the files than it takes to watch owing to lack of bandwidth on the USB 1.0 port and WiFi.
Watch the programs ? - Well not really. (and I had got so far !!!) The tivo files play on one machine after I installed a DVD burner (what a pain - sonic s/w constantly fights with XP and I have a garbage can full of dead +r, -r DVDs - I mean what was the industry thinking...! Now I can't use XP to do a simple CD burn without going through this "make compatible" nonsense)

So it looks like I have to buy a third party MPEG2 codec which must have installed during the DVD install to get the thing working on my other laptops - ones which already play DVDs - but I guess that's yet another codec.

So, three issues that I hope get fixed before video on a PC will get less frustrating :
Sort out this +r/-r stuff
Standardize and ship an mpeg2 codec in WMP 10
Have decent video editing s/w

Lots to do guys.....