Originally Posted by bkdtv (Post 5633696)

I don't know about the Mac version of Tivo Desktop, but on the PC version, you can edit all of the encoding parameters with a resource editor. Said a different way, you can customize everything -- resolution, frame rate, average video bitrate, peak video bitrate, audio bitrate, etc. I appended a screenshot at the bottom of this post.

Download the free XN Resource Editor application.

Make sure Tivo Desktop is closed. Right-click on the TiVo icon in your task tray and click "Pause Server."

Run the XN Resource Editor and use it to open the c:\Program Files\TiVo\Desktop\Plus\TiVoTrans.dll.

Select ENCODEPROFILES -> 220 -> English on the left. Scroll down to the bottom where you see:You can change the hrez and vrez values as appropriate for your player. In the case of the iPod Touch, you would change hrez to 640 and vrez to 480. If you increase resolution, you'll probably also want to increase the bitrate; you might try a vbitrateK of 1000 with a vmaxbitrateK of 1200.

Save the change. Open Tivo Desktop and select the "H.264 compatible device" profile (instead of iPod) under File -> Preferences -> Portable Devices.

You can right-click on the Tivo icon in your task tray to "Resume Server."

To restore the default settings, delete the TiVoTrans.dll and re-run the TiVo Desktop setup program. When you choose the Repair option, the installer will re-copy the original version of the file.