This has lost a lot of appeal ever since I upgraded the HDD in both my Roamio's to 3TB. With TiVo Desktop, my server appears at the bottom of the TiVo's My Programs listing so I can transfer them back to play when desired. So I can use kmttg to offload recordings to my server if I want to collect a series for summer viewing. Its main use is it enables bi-directional transfers between TiVo and server. I have TiVo Desktop running on my server (along with Plex, Mezzmo and kmttg). Just out of curiosity how long does it take to convert a video? I am curious why where isn't some kind of a 'Pass-through' conversion that doesn't edit the video as it is MPEG2 or MPEG4 already no? You know kind of like what MakeMKV Does. I downloaded the Pro version but I am running it on a VM and it won't do anything due to the lack of a sound card so I have to see what else I can do, i was hoping the VM would work as my server has a lot of horsepower compared to my other systems. Anyway I was never thrilled with it and rarely downloaded stuff but it seems like more and more shows are never coming to DVD which for someone like me that likes to 'Archive' certain shows its making me thing that my only option might be downloading them off my TiVO or maybe going with some kind of OTA Solution.Īnyway I checked out the VideoRedo Software you suggested, which version do I need just the Pro version one or the Suite? OTA recordings are not protected and can be transferred freely.Ĭlick to expand.Kelson - Thanks for the detailed information, I've been a long time TiVO Owner and I used to have their TV Desktop Software and I am sure I still have it kicking around somewhere. If cable recordings are protected, they can't be transferred. It doesn't appear too many people transfer their recordings.

There has been scattered talk about these tools in the TiVo threads but not a lot. I use both and have a Plex server - I'm OTA. It can run a commercial auto-detect module (links to Video ReDo).The filenames it uses can easily be configured to Plex format.Has auto-transfer capability for series you select.kmttg is the transfer program to pull files from the TiVo.If you don't care about cutting commercials. Then batch the file saves to your desired format. Batch facility so you can feed a bunch of recordings to the auto-commercial detect than come back later and just clean up the cut points.

Can recode to H.264 (full control over parameters) if you want (I never bother).It has a full editor with local recoding at the cut points for frame accurate editing to cut out commercials.

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