mattack
02-14-2008, 10:14 PM
I brought up similar issues in other threads, but I thought this would be worth it to start up a thread about.
Has anybody been able to download from Series 3 or TivoHD to a Mac, WITHOUT using Toast nor Popcorn, and had valid video files they could play/edit?
I have tried several things..
* Try downloading with TivoDecodeManager
Even though it 'says' it doesn't work with Series 3, I remember reading others say it worked... though can't find evidence of that now. I can get it to connect to both my Series 3 & TivoHD, but it downloads OVER AND OVER. It downloads the file, then immediately deletes it and starts downloading again.
* Downloading with the https://tivoip/nowplaying/ backdoor
I was able to download files with this, and then use the tivodecode command line program to supposedly convert the files.
But after this, I don't usually get video in any program. VLC and MPEG Streamclip play the audio of the recording, but no video at all. Also, VLC seems to think that all of the recordings are under about 12 minutes or so.. at least that's what it shows in the info.. But I seem to remember that the whole recording might actually be there (I didn't go through the whole thing, but skimmed, and it seemed like much longer than that).
I say 'usually' above since now I seem to remember I did get video one time, but it was still combined with other messed up things like the program thinking the recording was really short.
Any info about how people have done this successfully with a Mac *and* a Series 3 and/or TivoHD would be greatly appreciated..
Oh yeah -- and the downloaded size is different from what the web interface says. IIRC, web interface said 350 megs, it was really 305 megs downloaded (with no apparent interruption of the download). This may have been explained in another thread though.
Has anybody been able to download from Series 3 or TivoHD to a Mac, WITHOUT using Toast nor Popcorn, and had valid video files they could play/edit?
I have tried several things..
* Try downloading with TivoDecodeManager
Even though it 'says' it doesn't work with Series 3, I remember reading others say it worked... though can't find evidence of that now. I can get it to connect to both my Series 3 & TivoHD, but it downloads OVER AND OVER. It downloads the file, then immediately deletes it and starts downloading again.
* Downloading with the https://tivoip/nowplaying/ backdoor
I was able to download files with this, and then use the tivodecode command line program to supposedly convert the files.
But after this, I don't usually get video in any program. VLC and MPEG Streamclip play the audio of the recording, but no video at all. Also, VLC seems to think that all of the recordings are under about 12 minutes or so.. at least that's what it shows in the info.. But I seem to remember that the whole recording might actually be there (I didn't go through the whole thing, but skimmed, and it seemed like much longer than that).
I say 'usually' above since now I seem to remember I did get video one time, but it was still combined with other messed up things like the program thinking the recording was really short.
Any info about how people have done this successfully with a Mac *and* a Series 3 and/or TivoHD would be greatly appreciated..
Oh yeah -- and the downloaded size is different from what the web interface says. IIRC, web interface said 350 megs, it was really 305 megs downloaded (with no apparent interruption of the download). This may have been explained in another thread though.