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dkreifus
04-30-2008, 04:23 AM
I got Tivo Desktop 2.6.1 and set up some h.264 files I downloaded to transfer to the Tivo box. I don't know what time it started, but within 2 hours, the whole system started rebooting at any given time. And it would just continue to reboot, be it 10 minutes apart, 20 minutes apart, watching/recording a show, didn't matter.

I called Tivo support, and the lady told me to unplug and replug my tivo, then wait for it to reboot. I said I didn't know how long it would be, so she said to call back when it happened, and they'd have to replace my box.

I stopped the transfer on Tivo Desktop, and no reboots since.

Any ideas why these files would cause continous reboots? Only 1 of the 19 files got transfered. The history said the power was cut during the transfers.

The details:
Tivo 2 DT (with upgraded Hard Drive)
Tivo brand wireless adapter
Tivo Desktop Plus - (my friend had to get rid of his Tivo, so he sold me his plus key since he wasn't using it.
Videos:
Compression - H.264/AVC Dual Pass
Video Properties - 672x504 23.97fps FourCC Code: AVC1 DVDrips
Audio Properties - AAC-HE 48kHz 80 kb/s Stereo

madneon
04-30-2008, 08:40 AM
I had a simular thing happen the other day while transferring a very large file to my S3 it might have something to do with the file format, the size, or the fact that the tivo was being used while the file was being transfered, remedy burn the movie to a disk and use the dvd player...but this actually just happend to me with that one movie file...