TIVO File Conversions

burgman88

Will you be adding the option to convert TIVO file formats to DVDFAB in the future or can be done now?

signals

Do you mean convert a DVD or BD to a file that a Tivo will play or convert files made by a Tivo to something else? There was a Tivo profile in DVD Ripper at one time, not sure if it is still there.

burgman88

No Tivo has a utility that allows you to transfer programs to your pc so that you can copy to dvd if they are not covered by Copy protection laws about 75% of the shows you can copy to dvd. I was asking if DVD Fab will have an option that will take the TIVO file format and copy to a dvd. The only program that you can use is Roxio Creator 2011 or 2012 but why would I need to buy another program when I have the best software available to me DVDFab if it can do it.

Thanks

singemfrc

There's a program called DirectShowDump that will convert .Tivo files into .mpg files (Assuming you know the MAK), after which you can do whatever you want with them.

signals

[QUOTE=burgman88;112464]No Tivo has a utility that allows you to transfer programs to your pc so that you can copy to dvd if they are not covered by Copy protection laws about 75% of the shows you can copy to dvd. I was asking if DVD Fab will have an option that will take the TIVO file format and copy to a dvd. The only program that you can use is Roxio Creator 2011 or 2012 but why would I need to buy another program when I have the best software available to me DVDFab if it can do it.

Thanks[/QUOTE]Have you tried the DVD Creator module? It might read them. If not, make a thread about it in the Feature Request forum.

creeves

kmttg is a program that downloads & converts Tivo

I've been using this program for about two years & works well. The name is kmttg. Just do an internet search for kmttg. (I think the address is: code.google.com/p/kmttg/)
It does the same thing that Tivo Desktop does except it is one transaction for both the download to your computer and converting the Tivo file type to a .MPEG2 file type.
ONE NOTE: Go slow when setting it up. It works and it's great but it can do a lot of other things like converting files to other formats. So, read their site and read the different sceens in the program once you have installed it.

singemfrc

Interesting creeves, I'll definitely check that out. Tivo Desktop is very very slow and I get the feeling that they don't particularly care to keep it up to date (Kind of the antithesis of DVDFab!)

There is source code available for decoding .TiVo files (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tivodecode/), perhaps the DVDFab team could use that to add TiVo file handling to DVDFab.

Westwood

Getting TiVo transferable files out of DVDFAB

DVDFab 9 using Ripper function will take a DVD and produce a VOB file for TiVo playback. However If the file turns out bigger that 5GB it will not transfer from TiVo Desktop software into your TiVo player. I have not been able to limit the file output size. This is why DVDFab needs to add a new Device setting for TiVo. If anyone has a fix worked out for this problem please post it.

signals

You can run the DVD through the DVD Copy module and compress it to DVD-5 size, then process it with Ripper to make the single VOB. Hopefully a VOB/mpg encode-type profile can be added to Ripper in a future version.