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JoeTaxpayer
03-13-2009, 05:13 PM
I am running iTivo on my Mac, an MDD 1.25GHz G4 FWIW.
I can decrypt/copy non-HD shows any length, but any HD show over 30 minutes crashes the application with message "The application mencoder quit unexpectedly." This is as far as I've gotten, any ideas on this?
Yoav
03-13-2009, 10:44 PM
I am running iTivo on my Mac, an MDD 1.25GHz G4 FWIW.
I can decrypt/copy non-HD shows any length, but any HD show over 30 minutes crashes the application with message "The application mencoder quit unexpectedly." This is as far as I've gotten, any ideas on this?

first idea: use 'decrypt' instead of 'decrypt/copy'. That completely skips using mencoder. BUT it also means no commercial cuts.

second idea: use an actual encoding destination instead of 'copy', and see if that works (something like 'iphone' or 'quicktime h.264'). It may be that the 'copy' flags to mencoder make it crash for your inputs. I certainly haven't had that happen, but I'm not an mencoder weenie, and I know mencoder does crash for some things..
JoeTaxpayer
03-14-2009, 07:14 PM
Excellent! That worked! (The first suggestion)

My 3rd TiVo has someone else's service till it runs out in May. So with a different MAK, I can't move shows to/from it without that workaround. Still not sure what 'copy' does, as the decrypt only still puts a copy on my Mac, but it worked perfectly.
Thanks!
Yoav
03-14-2009, 07:53 PM
Excellent! That worked! (The first suggestion)

My 3rd TiVo has someone else's service till it runs out in May. So with a different MAK, I can't move shows to/from it without that workaround. Still not sure what 'copy' does, as the decrypt only still puts a copy on my Mac, but it worked perfectly.
Thanks!

'decrypt' pulls the show off the tivo and 'removes the DRM' (uses your MAK to turn it into a standard mpeg-2 file that tivo plays).

'decrypt/copy' pulls the show off the tivo, 'removes the DRM', and then reads and re-writes the video and audio streams to a new file. This generally seems redundant, except that it is useful when the copy is given additional arguments (like stripping the commercials, or extracting subtitles, etc). If you do none of those, then skip the copy phase and you're set.