Problems with Divx to TiVo transfers, anyone successful?

PyTivo is a better choice for this. I was unaware that TD even supported DivX.
I have only gotten the IRQ error from Video Card power/heat/driver issues.

EDIT: Wow... when did 2.5 come out? I would play with video drivers, not sure why transcoding would matter...

 

My problem is even stranger...I copied divx files into the proper folder and I don't see anything listed at all...

C:\Documents and Settings\XXXXXXXXXX\My Documents\My TiVo Recordings

 

I've had mixed results. Most divx/xvids transfer fine, but some do not. I have no idea why. It's possible they were encoded with earlier versions of divx/xvid that TiVo doesn't support. Who knows. I'm happy with whatever TiVo gives me. It is only the really old stuff that I'm having problems with. All the newer stuff works fine.

...Dale

 

I was successful. I tried it last night and the show transferred without a hitch. I viewed and skipped through it on the TiVo and noted that the picture was a little soft. It was almost VHS-like to my eyes, but other than that it worked great. I have read a post by Dan203 in the wrapper thread that the soft picture is probably due to the relatively low resolution and bit rate the converter in TiVo Desktop is set to use. So it looks like there is room to lobby TiVo to improve that in future releases of TiVo Desktop.

 

Is that a violation of the EULA?

It seems to me the whole reason they internalized it was to prevent people from doing this. If it turns out it is still easy, it won't help with their efforts to appease content providers. Heck, I figured the whole reason 2.3 was yanked when 2.4 came out was because it was so easy to up the resolution in 2.3. Of course that is wild speculation on my part.

CuriousMark

 

This free tool makes editing the DLL simple.

 

Anyone care to write a FAQ. We need:

- Exact .dll name and location
- exactly where within the DLL the change is to be made
- the changes people have tried with success

I'd like to give it a go if others can give me a bit of a road map.

...Dale

 

Wish I had read this before trying 25 different divx/xvid files & failing each time.

All the threads I read, up until this one, didn't really mention anything about Plus being required on 2.5 to get these files to transfer from PC to Tivo-- is it assumed that most people have Plus around here

Anywho, it doesn't look like 2.5 has any added benefits for me-- glad I didn't uninstall tivo-dot-net

 

Yupp, most people that have made it into this sub-forum are aware of the whole TiVo Plus requirement.

I wasn't when I first stumbled in last February but after much floundering about I figured it out too.

The way TiVo markets and talks about the whole plus package is different than other software products and quite confusing on their website.

It seems like the functionality to move content from the PC to the TiVo is more of an afterthought. They have the "TiVotoGo" name but the corresponding name for bringing content back is not called "TiVo2ComeBack" as many here call it.

They once referred to it as Web videos or something like that. Now they just describe it as the abiltity to watch video downloaded from the web - which is odd because its much more than that.

It took about 5 mouse clicks on their site to get to this page:

http://www.tivo.com/mytivo/domore/tivotogo/windows.html

where it is mentioned on the top right under the "TiVo Destkop 2.5 Plus upgrade for Windows". But even that page is ultra confusing as to what is included in the TiVo Desktop software and what isn't.

For one thing, you don't need TiVo Desktop 2.5 plus to make this work. You need TiVo Desktop 2.5, that's true but ANY OF THE EARLIER "plus" purchases work with Desktop 2.5. There isn't a separate 2.5 plus product for purchase. All the "plus" is, is an access code you type into whatever version of TiVo Desktop you are using. For the longest time I thought it was another software module. It ain't.


This whole part of their website needs to be rewritten in my opinion.

...Dale