.Tivo files from mac back to Tivo

[TivoEd]

I am able to transfer shows from both my s3 and s2 tivo's to my mac using the Toast and then transfer to iTunes (which takes a long time). Does anyone know why when either tivo's looks at the broadcasted tivo directory it doesn't recognize the .tivo files? Does it recognize any format? I have tried mp4 and mp2? This used to work in windows versions of ttg?

[bedelman]

The Macintosh version of TiVo Desktop officially doesn't support the publishing of videos back to the TiVo. However, there is a "hidden" videos tab that can be exposed by holding down the apple/command key when you click on the preference pane.

However, the metadata format changed slightly in .tivo files with the 9.1 software release -- and this unofficial feature no longer works with these new .tivo files. However, it does still work with MPEG-2 files (same as the non-Plus version of TiVo Desktop for Windows)

For other file formats, I personally use TiVo.NET (TiVo Dot Net) on my Macintosh machines which has been working for me for well over a year now (and under Leopard too). It now appears to be abandoned by the developer though. There's a thread here on it -- and A@ron created a preference pane to go along with it.

TiVo.NET supports well over a dozen different file formats including MP4 and AVI