| Issue 135: | very very very slow download | |
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What Version of iTiVo? Version 1.7.6 (1.7.6) What Version of MacOS X? 10.5.8 What download format did you select? AppleTV What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Select any Tivo recording 2. Start download 3. very very very slow Please provide any additional information below. I have an apple time machine based wireless network. tivo to imac is through that. 8hrs for 30min/1080mb file. I have a 2.1Ghz PowerPC G5 with 1,5Gb RAM
Nov 20, 2009
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troycau...@gmail.com
Nov 20, 2009
My format was "decrypt". Here's a tail of the log. It had about an hour's worth of "curl++ timeout" messages to start, then something changed. Looks like it killed something important. 2009-11-20 00:51:58 curl++ timeout: 1 currentFileSize: 3590 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:51:58 curl++ timeout: 0 currentFileSize: 3592 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:51:59 curl++ timeout: 1 currentFileSize: 3592 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:52:00 curl++ timeout: 0 currentFileSize: 3593 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:52:00 curl++ timeout: 0 currentFileSize: 3594 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:52:01 curl++ timeout: 1 currentFileSize: 3594 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:52:01 curl++ timeout: 0 currentFileSize: 3595 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:52:16 curl++ timeout: 1 currentFileSize: 3595 fullFileSize:4940 2009-11-20 00:52:44 Miniaturizing window 2009-11-20 00:52:44 write_settings 2009-11-20 00:52:45 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 00:52:45 mDNS -B _tivo-videos._tcp local | colrm 1 74| grep -v 'Instance Name' |sort | uniq & sleep 2 killall mDNS 2009-11-20 00:52:47 read settings 2009-11-20 00:52:47 growlisrun: 1 2009-11-20 00:52:47 Found Growl 2009-11-20 00:52:47 Using Macintosh HD:Applications:iTiVo.app:Contents:Resources:formats.plist 2009-11-20 00:52:47 Using format file : Macintosh HD:Applications:iTiVo.app:Contents:Resources:formats.plist 2009-11-20 00:52:47 getFormatsNames 2009-11-20 00:52:47 Format is Decrypt 2009-11-20 00:52:47 using format : Decrypt 2009-11-20 01:07:44 probably downloading things right now End of File 2009-11-20 01:22:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 01:37:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 01:52:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 02:07:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 02:22:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 02:37:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 02:52:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 03:07:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 03:22:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 03:37:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 03:52:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 04:07:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 04:22:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 04:37:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 04:52:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 05:07:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 05:22:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 05:37:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 05:52:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 06:07:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 06:22:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 06:37:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 06:52:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 07:07:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 07:22:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 07:37:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 07:52:45 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 07:58:37 write_settings 2009-11-20 07:58:37 getFormatsNames 2009-11-20 07:59:15 read settings 2009-11-20 07:59:18 growlisrun: 1 2009-11-20 07:59:18 Found Growl 2009-11-20 07:59:19 Using Macintosh HD:Applications:iTiVo.app:Contents:Resources:formats.plist 2009-11-20 07:59:19 Using format file : Macintosh HD:Applications:iTiVo.app:Contents:Resources:formats.plist 2009-11-20 07:59:19 getFormatsNames 2009-11-20 07:59:19 Format is Decrypt 2009-11-20 07:59:19 using format : Decrypt 2009-11-20 08:07:44 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 08:22:46 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 09:11:26 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 09:26:26 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 09:41:26 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 09:56:26 probably downloading things right now 2009-11-20 10:11:26 probably downloading things right now
Jan 1, 2010
Seeing the same thing with iTivo and 10.6 - way slow, please help!
Feb 4, 2010
SL 10.6.2 Very slow downloads here as well. A 1hr HD show downloads in 3-3.5hrs. The TiVo is the newest HD version and is hard wired into the network but the iMac is on wireless. Netgear router in use if that matters any. LOVE your program but the downloads being this slow is my only concern. Thanks!!!
Mar 13, 2010
Same problem, anyone find a solution?
Mar 14, 2010
no solutions have been proposed as far as i know. i ended up giving up on the product altogether and using a widget called NowPlaying
Mar 8, 2012
So slow it's unuseable. Takes 20+ hours to download 1 hour of content for me.
Apr 18, 2012
Are folks still seeing this? Performance is limited by the performance of your network and the server within the TiVo, but it should not be as bad as stated. I'd be happy to help analyze this, but need more information.
Owner:
tony1ath...@gmail.com
Apr 18, 2012
I still can't download anything because of the slow connection speed..
Apr 24, 2012
Debugged offline with wake.stephen and showed that, at least in his case, it wasn't iTiVo
Apr 29, 2012
If tony1ath...@gmail.com is still monitoring this thread, please share what you learned during your offline debugging session. I am also experiencing very slow performance, and see the same timeout entries in the console logs listed above. Transferring from my TiVo HD can take 2-3 hours per hour of HD -- and this is over fast Ethernet (wired) on a MBP with 2.66 GHZ Intel Core i7 and 8GB of RAM (not much VM swapping, if any). If anyone has a suggestion, I would really like to hear it. Thank you, Steve
Apr 29, 2012
Well, what we demonstrated was that Stephen was able to bring up a VM with Windows and use the TiVo Windows app to download. It showed no better performance than iTiVo. In my experience, downloads DO take longer than real time, and over a WiFi network I get about 1Mb/s. Here's some manual instructions that you can try:
If you start a download, you should see a file ~/Library/Logs/iTiVo.log.
In that file, you should find a line that invokes the 'curl' program. It might look something like:
curl 'http://192.168.2.102:80/download/MythBusters.TiVo?Container=%2FNowPlaying&id=2260319' -c /tmp/cookies.txt --retry 12 --retry-delay 10 --digest
Take this line. Delete the part that says: -o /tmp/iTiVo-tli/iTiVoDLPipe --stderr /tmp/iTiVo-tli/iTiVoDL
Add in "-o foo.bar"
Now, run the result in a Terminal window. You should see something like:
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
553869703 31 553869703 163M 0 0 979k 0 --:--:-- 0:02:51 --:--:-- 996k
The far right hand number at the bottom should give you something around 1000k. This is running against a Series 2.
What do you get?
Note that the performance limit here seems to be the TiVo itself. It would be very interesting to see your wired results.
Apr 30, 2012
Tony, Further to this I connected via an Ethernet cable and speeds were increased massively. My 1 hour show which was going to take 40+ hours wirelessly downloaded in about 70 mins via Ethernet. So definitely the network not the app!
Jun 6, 2012
Not a bug
Status:
Invalid
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