I realise that to mention this is a distraction from the core task
. The reason I am now is because I thought that as the less technical users from around the country might be posting tivos and hard drives around it might be nice to give people the disc space back, if there is going to be a standard image and there's only one chance. A far-out alternative is to use this space ourselves and include Showcases with videos every now and then if the emulator supports that part of the service, but i don't think the dial-up users would like it much!The same principle applies to other little niggles - off the top of my head without having seen the AltEPG image myself:
* flickering selection bar - easily fixed with replacement images (attached). The originals are appalling around the curves even if there was no flicker.
* squashed yellow/green dots in Now Playing (they are circles on PC but not on the TV because PAL pixels aren't square and the guy doing them didn't realise) - again replaceable
* more padding options - just by changing the relevant string in MFS you can easily add more, and they all work. I always hated only having 1,2,5 mins with 3 and 4 missing; and the huge jumps between 1hr, 1 1/2hrs and 3 hrs longer often cause clashes with a later ToDo programme if you're trying to extend an in-progress recording and know that EndPad won't save you (eg F1 race). So I added them. 1 1/4hrs, 1 3/4hrs, 2hrs, 2 1/2hrs, etc. (Half-minutes work perfectly too but might be too much for most.)
* more "Keep at Least" options. And introduce some more Britishness at the same time. Mine is "Until space needed, Until I delete, 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, A week, 10 days, A fortnight, 3 weeks, A month". Works the same way as the padding.
* many typos and spelling mistakes in other MFS strings
* the telephone number for support that is displayed on screen (I suggest changing it to a URL instead, it's only text) for various error messages (some are quite rare and I can't remember how to get to those screens!)
* the telephone number/message on the GSOD
* the mwstate fix (binary patch to tivoapp)
* iicsetw (the nice version posted to the forum one that doesn't lock up) to set the RGB input colour/luminance at startup. The values you need varies from tivo to tivo though but you could perhaps improve on the factory defaults.
* mode0 with LJ's fix and VBR bitrates - I assume the image already does these
Anyway I thought I'd throw it out there and see what people think. I remember TiVoweb's Info+ module and TiVoweb+ got the free space calculations wrong too when I did it, as they made assumptions which weren't right. I hand-hacked my copies to my new fixed value.
from tvlog, BEFORE:
Mar 27 09:55:18 (none) Scheduler[167]: DISK SPACE: Total: 227502 Live cache: 2412 Overhead: 394
Mar 27 09:55:18 (none) Scheduler[167]: TIVO CLIPS DISK SPACE: Total: 9765 Overhead: 53
AFTER:
May 16 18:05:27 (none) Scheduler[171]: DISK SPACE: Total: 236868 Live cache: 1608 Overhead: 280
May 16 18:05:27 (none) Scheduler[171]: TIVO CLIPS DISK SPACE: Total: 400 Overhead: 53
[edit: added v5 selection bars, and dots]
, though I think 1TB may be the sweet spot for a TiVo - 1TB runs fine in my TiVo with CacheCard (and extra 16MB of RAM as it happens), and a Season Pass list 100s long (although most now expired). The disk runs in a permanently full state - I just let old recordings which aren't set as "Keep until I delete" drop off the end on the basis that if they are that old I am not likely to miss them. I think I have about 80 pages of Mode 0 recordings so plenty really 
