Transfer Tivo files to Android portable devices

Question:

I use TiVo all the time and recorded my favorite TV shows, but they cannot be played on android tablets or other portable devices. What should I do it happen? Also I copied videos from online video websites like Youtube and hope I could convert them to edit in Adobe Premiere Elements so I can do home movies.

Answer:

Like many other consumer electronics companies, TiVo observes various forms of copy protection as required by several industry authorities. To make TiVo recordings available for playback on multiple devices you need a TiVo protection removal converter which is capable of getting rid of TiVo copy protection and convert it to android tablet acceptable format like H.264 MP4.

Here the Pavtube video converter as the Best Tivo converter for Android is recommended for you. Except that, it could handle almost all the video files you thrown into it. Like flv, f4v, swf, mkv, vob, mod, mov, avchd, mts, m2ts etc. Below is the how-to Guide.

Part 1. Transfer recorded TiVo shows to your PC.

Required Application: TiVo Desktop (freeware)
TiVo Desktop is a free tool that lets you publish and share digital music, photos and TiVo recordings between your networked TiVo Series DVR/HD-DVR and your computer. Get TiVo Desktop and to transfer shows from your TiVo to PC.

Part 2. Convert TiVo shows to Android Tablets optimized MP4 files

Required: TiVo Video Converter (shareware) installed on your computer

TiVo Video Converter ($35) is an easy-to-use TiVo decoder, which does not hack TiVo box, but instead, convert .tivo files to desired format on computer. This TiVo Converter not only restore  protected TiVo shows to MPEG format for fair use, but also features preset MP4 formats for you to converts TiVo to versatile Android tablets optimized videos that plays best image.

Refer to the below guide for converting TiVo to an Android Tablet/Compressing TiVo to MP4:

Step 1. On your PC, launch Pavtube Tivo video converter, and press “Option” button. Switch to “TiVo” tab in Option window, and enter TiVo Media Access Key.

How to find your Media Access Key on TiVo: Go to “TiVo Central” menu >> “Messages and Set Up” “Account and System Information”, and your Media Access Key would be there.

Step 2. Drag and drop TiVo shows to the main interface for converting TiVo to MP4.

Step 3. Click on the “Format” bar to select output format. In order to convert TiVo to play on Android tablet, find the preset for your target slab. There are templates for Galaxy Tab, Kindle Fire, Xoom, Iconia Tab, Eee PadTransformer/TF Prime, Archos tablets, Toshiba Thrive tablets, Nook tablets, etc for your choice.

Step 4. Press “Convert” to convert and compress TiVo shows to MP4 videos for transferring to Android tablet. The preset will downsize a TiVo file to less than 4GB so as to meet the FAT32 file system that used on Android devices.

Step 5. After conversion completes you can click “Open” to find converted and copy TV shows to your Android tablet or smartphone for carrying along with.

Provided that you are a Mac guy rather than PC fan, Pavtube Mac TiVo video Converter is a better choice for you to convert TiVo recordings to MP4 for iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, etc

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