macgeekery.com— Hot on the heals of the Tivo DRM being broken: automatically download, convert and transfer Tivo file to your iPod.
Dec 5, 2006View in Crawl 4
I use OS X, and I am not a shell scripter or a software engneer. I really do appreciate all of the hard work that these people have put into this effort. That being said, I cannot decipher instructions like "The Java JRE bin directory must be in you system PATH environment variable." I have a series 2 TiVo which I would DESPERATELY love to pull content from to archive. If this is the answer, I'll have to wait for a GUI solution. I just want to see the list of movies on the Tivo in one window, and then be able to copy them to my Mac so that I can transcode them to .mp4 or whatever Quicktime codec I choose. I'll be on the lookout for this in GUI. I really hope it is on the horizon, for the sake of the millions of non-script-mokeys like myself.But many thanks to the guys working hard on this.
I use TVHarmony, it does everything. You just tell it which show you want and the file format you want it in, and it will download it from thw TiVo and encode it for your iPod.
The final output is DRM-less, and I'm sure the networks don't want to allow TiVo to have TiVoToGo functionality unless DRM is involved. That is why there is no Mac version.
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ahknightDec 5, 2006
I'm about three hours into this method and it's converted several hours of TiVo video already. :D
spdorseyDec 5, 2006
I use OS X, and I am not a shell scripter or a software engneer. I really do appreciate all of the hard work that these people have put into this effort. That being said, I cannot decipher instructions like "The Java JRE bin directory must be in you system PATH environment variable." I have a series 2 TiVo which I would DESPERATELY love to pull content from to archive. If this is the answer, I'll have to wait for a GUI solution. I just want to see the list of movies on the Tivo in one window, and then be able to copy them to my Mac so that I can transcode them to .mp4 or whatever Quicktime codec I choose. I'll be on the lookout for this in GUI. I really hope it is on the horizon, for the sake of the millions of non-script-mokeys like myself.But many thanks to the guys working hard on this.
kevincuppDec 5, 2006
I use TVHarmony, it does everything. You just tell it which show you want and the file format you want it in, and it will download it from thw TiVo and encode it for your iPod.
omgitsmitDec 5, 2006
Where did he get a 10 foot tall ipod at? O_o
ahknightDec 5, 2006
The last part talks about getting it to the iPod. The format described in the transcoding section is compatible both with the Mac and the iPod.
grizDec 5, 2006
So there is really no excuse why Tivo has not offered this for Mac users already. I'm guessing pressure from Apple.
hargreaeDec 5, 2006
The final output is DRM-less, and I'm sure the networks don't want to allow TiVo to have TiVoToGo functionality unless DRM is involved. That is why there is no Mac version.
dvdrtrgnDec 7, 2006
Thank you! And thanks for the launchd tutorial!
cooldimensFeb 20, 2007
1. How to convert .tivo to AVI, MPEG?2. How to convert .ty to AVI, MPEG?Read here:<a class="user" href="http://dvdsoft.us/tivo-ty-convert-to-avi-mpeg.htm">http://dvdsoft.us/tivo-ty-convert-to-avi-mpeg.htm</a>
wadaodiJan 6, 2009
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