Re: Tivo Hard Drive question in Audio/Video Chat http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21437635 en Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:19:43 EDT Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:19:43 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21453132 b10010011 :
said by TurtleFan See Profile :

Hmm, thanks guys. Sometimes the download time for Tivo To Go is ridiculously slow... Talking 4 hours slow for a 30 minute program.

When the computer restarted, it asked me to unlock the Tivo Desktop software. That seems to have fixed the problem, for now at least..
Unlock the Tivo Desktop software? I have been using Tivo Desktop for a year or so now and never saw that before.

I was getting slow transfers (1-2 megabit) when I was using a Linksys WGA54G Gaming Adapter to connect the Tivo to my wireless router. I switched to a WRT-54G that was flashed with DD-WRT so it could operate in wireless bridge mode.

Now my transfers are around 8 to 16 megabit. Sometimes it's a bit slower like when I am recording two HD programs while watching a third and transferring a forth.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21453132 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:01:36 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21452985 TurtleFan : Hmm, thanks guys. Sometimes the download time for Tivo To Go is ridiculously slow... Talking 4 hours slow for a 30 minute program.

When the computer restarted, it asked me to unlock the Tivo Desktop software. That seems to have fixed the problem, for now at least..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21452985 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:30:15 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21449545 b10010011 : As many have said the Tivo formats and decides where the recording are stored. You can not select where you want it to go.

That being said... All programs that are not flagged "No Transfer" by the copyright holder can be transferred to your computer using Tivo to go.

Once the programs are on your computer you can watch them directly with Windows media player. Or there are plenty of programs that can convert the Tivo file to a standard MPEG file.

Here is a google to get you started

»www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe···&spell=1]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21449545 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:07:38 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21445610 DataDoc : It's not that simple. Go to the TIVO forums I posted and find out how to hack it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21445610 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:45:47 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21445588 Dogg : It uses the same format as the internal drive. Which is not the same as the Tivo to go software. The whole purpose of the software is to move the files from the Tivo to your PC and make them readable by the PC.
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Google is your Friend]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21445588 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:42:10 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21437635 TurtleFan :
So it doesn't save to the hard drive in the same file form it downloads with using Tivo To Go? In this case, a .tivo file?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21437635 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:34:44 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21435910 fuziwuzi : From my experience, when you connect the external drive to the TiVO, it uses it in the same manner as its internal drive and you cannot tell it to use one or the other. There is no way to set a program to record to a particular drive.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21435910 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:50:29 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21435642 Dogg : It will write to the external drive in the same format that it writes to the internal drive, which is unreadable by your PC.
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Google is your Friend]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21435642 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:45:10 EDT Re: Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21433670 DataDoc : If you can't get an answer here, try one of these forums:
»www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/index.php]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21433670 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:18:49 EDT Tivo Hard Drive question http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21432985 TurtleFan : Stupid Question Time.

If I got a portable Hard Drive to hook up to the Tivo, I wouldn't have to use the Download Feature anymore, correct?

I'd just tell it to save to the external Hard Drive, unplug it from the TIVO, plug it into my PC, and convert that was using VideoReDoo, correct?

Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21432985 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:04:58 EDT