Some of you will howl that Netflix and BitTorrent and other things should fall into this category too. I say “Nay!�. I’ve built and re-built so-called Media Center PCs before and I’m sick of it. I don’t want a PC in my gear stack, I just want a

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Assuming that one has mplayer installed and has a codec that can handle MPEG2 video, the end result of this command is instant playback of the .TiVo file. Talk about sweetness!

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