[msgtgumby]

Every time I download a show off of TiVo onto my computer, when I view it in Media Player there is a single static line going across the top. The files are still .tivo files, I am not converting them. I re-uploaded one of them to TiVo and the line isn't there, it's just on my computer. Any ideas as to what is causing it? I tried to print screen a picture, but it doesn't show the line in the print screen capture...it's weird

 

[jamdod]

That line is the VBI.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213677,00.html

That is how the closed captioning information is sent. You don't see it on your TV do to overscan. http://scanline.ca/overscan/

On the PC the only thing you can do to get rid of it is edit and crop the video.
Unless someone knows of a player that can crop video on the fly that plays .tivo files.

 

[msgtgumby]

Oh, I feel dumb. Was just bugging the hell out of me, thanks.

 

[jamdod]

No need to feel dumb.
I didn't know what it was the first time I saw it, until someone explained it to me.