Version 13 of COMPANY: TiVo Inc.

Updated 2006-05-29 04:25:12

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A brief mention of Tcl use at Tivo:

http://acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=53

". At TiVo the main public domain tool we use is the Tcl scripting language. TiVo developed a proprietary extension to Tcl for manipulating the database and media file system on the TCD."

See some of the following web sites for tcl code written to work with the TiVo devices:

[add more as time goes by]


Moritz: Does anyone know why TiVo Inc. chose Tcl?


davidw: Don't know, but it looks like folks working on similar, free projects decided to go with Python instead:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/27/freevo.html

... and they have now released an SDK, but it's Java based:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-31-2005/0002939107&EDATE=


See also:

which get into programming Tcl as well as other hacks.


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