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

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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.

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