If you need to get a show or several off your TiVo and onto recordable DVD you'll want to use one of these two methods for sure.

The first one is a program called tivo2dvd (who'd have thunk it, right?)

tivo2dvd

The binary will automatically download the *.TiVo file - convert it to .mpeg - decompress and spit the file into separate audio and video - recombine them and format them as an .iso file.  It then burns them to DVD for you!  FIre and forget - come back later and BOOM there's a DVD ready to play on your television set.

Example:

concord@s170:~/.tivo2dvd$ tivo2dvd -a 192.168.1.103 -m 4501952161 "The War"
# Accessing show list from Tivo

This DD-WRT stuff is all kinda new to me.  I know lots of you have been re-flashing your wireless routers and access points with Linux (OpenWRT or DD-WRT or others) for a  while now.  Finally, I too have a success story.

First a little history for the uninitiated.  Apparently, back in the day, a company called Linksys decided to save some development time/effort by not re-inventing the wheel - they started selling Linksys wireless router/gateway devices running a customized and tiny version of Linux which they had tweaked for their specific hardware.  Those first devices were the Linksys model WRT-54.  The nature of the GPL license meant they had to share the source code and it's modifications with the GNU/Linux community.

When purchase a device and the manufacturer get to decide what's best for you to see or hear do you really own  the product at all?