Convert/Transfer/Put Tivo shows to Motorola Droid with Tivo Converter

The Pavtube Tivo Converter helps you schedule TiVo shows to Motorola Droid, Motorola Droid X, and many other smart phones. This app, however, is not just a TiVo Converter. It converts almost any video you get to whatever media player you have. TV recordings of TiVo TP, TRP, TS format, HD shootings from Sony, Panasonic, Canon, JVC cameras and camcorders, movies downloaded from the Internet of MKV, FLV, F4V format, etc can be converted to your Motorola Droid, HTC Hero, iPad, iPhone 4, Apple TV, PS3, etc. All right, that’s not your concern, so let’s focuses on TiVo to Motorola Droid conversion. Please find a step-by-step tutorial of transferring and converting TiVo to Motorola Droid optimized videos below:
Part 1. Transfer TiVo recordings to PC with TiVo Desktop
If you record a show on your TiVo box, you can easily play it back on your PC or laptop. I believe it is an everyday thing for most TiVo users. And there are instructions by TiVo’s official site:
[URL=http://www.tivo.com/mytivo/howto/record-once-watch-anywhere/howto_transfer_shows_pc.html]Transferring TiVo shows to your PC[/url]
Transfer times vary, but may be as long as the show's duration to complete the transfer, so you have to be patient when cloning TiVo to PC.
Part 2. Detailed guide of TiVo to Motorola Droid conversion
You may download and install the Tivo Converter and try it out. The trial gives you full access of the features, but creates video with a Pavtube logo on the screen.
Step 1. Input Media Access Key.
Launch Pavtube TiVo Converter, Click on the “Option” button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media Access Key. Click “OK” to confirm.


Step 2. Run TiVo to Motorola Droid Converter and import source TiVo shows.
Click “Add” to load recorded TV shows, or you could just drag and drop the *.tivo files to the TiVo to Motorola Droid converter.

Step 3. Set output format to fit for Motorola Droid.
Pavtube Video Converter is recommended as a best tool to help you complete the TiVo to Motorola Droid conversion, as it features optimized format for Motorola Droid. Click on “Format” bar and follow “Android” > “Motorola Droid (X) MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)”. This format is specialized for both Motorola Droid X and Motorola Droid, which guarantee fluent and perfect video playback on Droid and Droid X.


If you prefer a smaller file size, just click on “Settings” and set the video bit rate down to 1500kbps and it will still looks fine on screen. Dolby 5.1 Pro Logic sound is available too.
Step 4. Convert TiVo to play on Motorola Droid wtih Pavtube Tivo Converter.
Now click "Convert" button and wait. The popup window will present you all the info such as conversion progress, conversion state, elapsed and estimated conversion time, and generated and estimated conversion file size. After conversion you could click the "Open" button next to output box to find the converted files. Sync the MP4 files to Motorola Droid memory card and then you can play them freely on Motorola Droid. You may check "Shut down computer after conversion" and leave it be if it takes long to convert TiVo to Motorola Droid videos.


Additional Tip: Trim out bothering commercial ads
You can make the TiVo to Motorola Droid conversion as complex as you want with the Editing facilities. You may cut off black edges, trim out unwanted ads, add watermark, replace audio, flip video, etc. Simply click on “Edit” button to enter editing window of TiVo Converter. To cut out unwanted frames from the video, you can switch to 'Trim' tab and type in desired time value in ‘Start’ and ‘End’ box and click ‘Set’ button. Or you can click left square bracket and right square bracket to set start and end time when playing the video (as it shows below).

The Pavtube conversion speed and quality are very good. It was so easy to use. I can say it was very easy to figure out right away and I really appreciate that.


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How to convert TiVo to MPEG?



TiVo digital video recorder is a popular home setup box, which can easily skip over TV commercial advertising while recording television shows and movies for later playback. Since TiVo files are not always accepted by many other multimedia players or devices, people often have the needs of converting these files to other formats. Today, I will take how to convert TiVo to MPEG with Pavtube Tivo Converter as an example, to enable you to play these files on your local PC, or burn them to DVD, or do something else as you like.

Instructions:

1. Transfer TV programs 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 Tivo Converter




Step 1: Click "Add" button to load TiVo files into Pavtube Tivo Converter.

Step 2: Click the drop-down list 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 effortlessly.