Can TivO play back shows recorded by MCE

[danieljanderson]

Can TiVo play back shows recorded on Windows MCE without jumping through any hoops?

Thanks

[pdhenry]

If you can get the recorded content into an Mpeg2 format, it's supposed to go through fine.

No personal experience.

[Dan203]

without jumping through any hoops?

Depends on what you define as a hoop. There is software out there that can extract standard MPEG-2 data from an MCE program. However it takes a few minutes per recording to make the conversion. Also when you transfer a standard MPEG-2 file to a TiVo it will not have any guide data, which means it wont group or have any identifying information other then the file name.

Dan

[HDTiVo]

Besides what you could do today, I am hoping TiVo's strategy is to work smoothly with ViiV and the MSFT thingy to have an MCE work smoothly through a TiVo attached to the TV.