Shared Knowledge
“Tivo: How to Get a Tivo Recorded
Program to
Background:
I have 2 Series II Tivo
boxes.
I have the Tivo Desktop application installed on 3 personal computers (PC).
My Tivo's each use an USB-to-Ethernet adapter (100 Megabits per second) to connect to a 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) Ethernet switch, which is then connected to a CAT5e 1Gbps Ethernet cable.
All my PC, Tivo servers, have 1Gbps Ethernet interfaces to the same 1Gbps Ethernet cable.
My router has 1Gbps Ethernet ports.
Using Tivo Desktop, I can see
programs that have been recorded on my 2 Tivo boxes and download a copy of any
program to any of my 3 PC Tivo servers (on holds nothing but DVD quality movies,
one holds Tivo recorded movies and one holds Tivo recorded television show
episodes).
Now sometimes, the downloaded
program is so good, I want to create a
How to Get a Tivo Recording to a DVD:
1.All Tivo recordings end with a .tivo
extension meaning that the recording is more than a simple .mpg file. To be
able to burn a copy of the recorded program, the Tivo recording must be
converted from .tivo to .mpg.
2.To convert .tivo files to .mpg
files, I use a free tool called
“Directshow Filter
Dump.”
3.Once I have a Tivo recorded program in .mpg format, I use Ulead MovieFactory to set up and
burn a