TurtleFan
join:2003-05-03
Wyckoff, NJ
| Tivo Hard Drive question 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?
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Dogg
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join:2003-06-11
Belleville, IL | 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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fuziwuzi
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join:2005-07-01
Atlanta, GA | 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. | |
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TurtleFan
join:2003-05-03
Wyckoff, NJ |
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? | |
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Dogg
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join:2003-06-11
Belleville, IL
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| 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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DataDoc
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join:2000-05-14
Greenville, NC | It's not that simple. Go to the TIVO forums I posted and find out how to hack it. | |
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b10010011
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join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA
·Comcast Formerly ..
| 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 | |
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TurtleFan
join:2003-05-03
Wyckoff, NJ
| 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.. | |
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join:2004-09-07
Bellingham, WA
·Comcast Formerly ..
| Re: Tivo Hard Drive question said by 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.. 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. | |
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