Support for streaming via Tivo lost in precompiled binaries

[ciper@…]

I'm interested in the feature of mplayer that allows streaming of TY files directly from a Tivo. I had another machine with an older version of Mplayer and this worked properly. It seems that along the way the person compiling the windows binaries on the site forgot to link the library. If you read the document here ​http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/man/en/mplayer.1.html you can see this option listed under the synopsis section.

Here is what I am typing and the error I receive.

mplayer tivo://x.x.x.51/list

Playing tivo://x.x.x.51/list.
File not found: 'x.x.x.51/list'
Failed to open tivo://x.x.x.51/list.

I have TivoWebPlus (a webserver on the tivo) which shows a list of videos currently on the Tivo. Next to each recording is a "View" link which points to an ASX file. This launches Windows Media Player which is successfully able to play the video.

While watching a streamed video in WMP I selected View-Properties to show the fsid address of the file which was tivo://x.x.x.51/3613939

I then tried "mplayer tivo://x.x.x.51/3613939" and got the same error as above.

I have also posted this question to the DealDataBase forums which offer support for Tivo video extraction. Here is the link to the specific post from me ​http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53502

Thanks for your help

[ciper@…]

screenshot of error

[ciper@…]

Here is a screen shot of the error with the full IP address censored.

[reimar]

Old releases are available at ​ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32 but I am not aware of any including TiVo support.
If I am wrong tell me and I might consider adding it, though I don't think the number of users this has really justifies it.
There are more precompiled binaries here: ​http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/projects.html but I doubt that any of those include tivo support either...

[ciper@…]

How many users would I need to find in order to convince the Mplayer team that Tivo support is needed?

[reimar]

You did see ​http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2007-February/065658.html
I guess?
According to that the library needed mostly untested on Windows, I don't have a good feeling including "experimental" untested stuff in the official binary.
The reason why I think that this has hardly any users is that AFAIK this only works for the first generation TiVos, which is a US-only product anyway.
I intend to experiment a bit with it when booting windows next time, but don't hold your breath.

[ciper@…]

Series 2 Tivos are also able to run the Vserver application. TiVo service is available in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Taiwan. End users have hacked Tivos. to work in Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, and South Africa.

[reimar]

We probably won't provide prebuilt binaries anymore, referring instead to sites like oss.netfarm.it (see related projects).
Might be possible to convince someone to support this...