Confusion On Viewing & Burning

[tuggnet]

I am very confused as to how the transfer and viewing procedure works.

I thought all I needed was to get the Tivo desktop (free version) and download the shows to my PC. Then author a DVD and bam I'm done.

Apparently I'm missing something!

Here's what I did:

Installed Tivo Desktop and selected content from my Tivo and initiated download to my Windows XP box. That part worked like a champ!

So now I've got several .tivo files on my machine that I thought I would be able to view using WMP. When I tried to view them in WMP all I got was a black screen.

So I figured it was just because they were huge files and I really didn't want to view them on my pc anyway I really wanted to make a DVD so,
I used MyDVD and imported the .tivo file and created my DVD project.

I preview my DVD (using MyDVD preview) and it works great! Then I attempt to burn the DVD and it just sits thaere and does nothing. I let it run over night and still nothing.

I suspect it has something to do with not being able to play the .tivo file in WMP.

I have read other posts that say I need an MPEG-2 codec or I need a program called VideoReDo Plus.

I assumed Roxio 9 (MyDVD) would have come with an MPEG-2 codec. Is that right?

Anyway, any help would be appreciated!

Cheers

[tuggnet]

Seems I've discovered (and corrected) my problem. I simply needed to update my video driver to the latest.

I have an Nvidia 7300 or something like that. Just went to the Nvidia site, downloaded the proper driver and joy!