A practical solution of transcoding tivo files to the format of MPEG

Since TiVo DVR is capable of easily skipping over TV commercial advertising while recording TV shows and movies for later playback, this little gadget has become a popular home setup box. However, the thing is that for its special format, tivo files usually do not get supports from many other multimedia players or devices; therefore, people’s needs of converting these files to other formats has never been stopped, and they always look around solutions to this problem. In the purpose of doing you guys a favor, I write this post to show a practical solution of transcoding tivo file to the format of MPEG, and after this conversion, you will be able to play these files on your local PC, or burn them to DVD, or do whatever else as you wish.

How-To:

1. Transfer tivo to your personal computer

To achieve this goal, you should make use of TiVo Desktop software, you can download it here: TiVo Desktop software. Open TiVo Desktop, click “Pick Recordings to Transfer” to transfer TV shows to your PC. The TiVo Desktop will prompt when the transfer is finished.

2. Convert TiVo to MPEG via Pavtube Video Converter

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load TiVo files into Pavtube Video Converter.

Step 2: Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select MPEG as output format, and click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify where to locate the output MPEG files.

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel, etc.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start converting tivo files to MPEG.

Additionally, if you want to combine all the imported tivo files to be as a single file, you can check “Merge into one file”. If you want to edit the original tivo files before format conversion, you can click “Edit” button to do it as soon as you loaded them to this application. Pavtube Video Converter provides users with several simple editing functions, such as “Crop”, “Trim”, “Add Text Watermark”, “Add Image/Video Watermark”, “Effect”, and “Audio Replace”.

After conversion is completed, you can click “Open” button to get the generated MPEG files with ease.

Besides converting tivo files to MPEG, this tivo converter can also convert tivo files to lots of other popular media formats, including MP4 (supported by iPod, iPhone, PSP, Apple TV, Gphone, Blackberry etc.), 3GP (supported by 3G mobile phones), FLV (suitable for online transferring), MPEG-4 (support importing to iMovie, Final Cut Pro.), AVI, MPG, MOV, 3G2, VOB, and the operating steps is just as the same as transcoding tivo to MPEG.