There's MythTV, but if you're not already comfortable with Linux the learning curve is very steep. I would start with their live distribution (CD bootable). There are other DVR packages out there too, some free, some not, some Windows, some Linux. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_PVR_software_packages
I doubt any of them are as family friendly at TiVo. ________________________________ From: Mike Thomas <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 8:42:29 PM Subject: [TiVo Central] Nero Liquid TV? Does anybody have any experience with Nero Liquid TV and can give some opinions on it? In my seemingly never-ending quest for the ability to play back DVDs (and preferably DVDs ripped to ISOs) using a TiVo-like interface, I wondered whether Liquid TV might be able to this (play DVD ISOs). I have read a couple of reviews but they weren't in-depth enough to cover this kind of question. BWT I tried this on Vista Media Center about a year ago and it was very hard to accurately fast-forward in a movie that had been ripped to the hard drive (as individual VOBs, IFOs, etc., not as an ISO). To be fair I was blown away that a Microsoft product would even let you play VOBs, but it turns out it's an unsupported feature, and appeared to have two fast-forward speeds - 1.00000001x and 1000x ;-) Any other suggestions welcome, although with the exception of Liquid TV they would probably be diverging us from the discussion at hand (TiVo). Thanks ... Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
