1. The 4th generation TiVo Premiere XL now
records up to 150 hours of HD
programming, which frees users from the
issue of insufficient storage memory.
However, you may still wanna convert tivo
HD to burn tivo to DVD or copy TiVo to hard
drive for enjoying the shows more freely on
PC. In this guide IÂ’d like to introduce to
you a more economical way to convert Tivo
HD and burn to DVD, which costs you $35
only (the DVD burner is excluded, of
course).
video to dvd burner
2. Software youÂ’ll need: TiVo Desktop for the PC (freeware) , Pavtube Tivo
Converter (shareware, $35 00) , Windows DVD Maker (freeware) Part 1
Convert TiVo recordings to PC with TiVo Desktop If you record a show on
your TiVo box, you can easily play it back on your PC or laptop I believe it is
an everyday thing for most TiVo users And there are instructions by TiVoÂ’s
official site: http://www tivo com/mytivo/howto nsfer_shows_pc html Part 2
3. Convert TiVo to MPEG DVD Movie Maker compatible formats with Pavtube
Tivo Converter The Pavtube Tivo Converter is much more than a TiVo to
DVD Converter It convert TiVo fles to Aplle iPhone 4, iPad, PSP, Moto Droid,
Nokia, Samsung galaxy s smart phones, Zune, Xbox 360, PS3 and popular
formats like * avi, * mpg, * vob, * mkv, * wmv, * mov, * ac3, etc and handles
with TV recordings of other formats * ts, * tp, *
4. trp files You can Convert HD TiVo to DVD as simple or as complex as you
want Step 1 Input Media Access Key Launch Pavtube Video Converter,
Click on the “Option” button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media
Access Key Click “OK” to confirm Step 2: Import TiVo files for converting
TiVo to DVD Now click “Add” to import all tivo files, or you may drag and
drop the * tivo files to the window of TiVo to DVD Converter Step 3: Select an
output format MPEG for burning TiVo to DVD in Windows DVD Maker
5. Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format If you do
not want to loss any quality, please select Copy-> Directly Copy so that the
TiVo Converter will decrypt the shows to * mpg or * ts files Nowadays the
shows are normally HD 1920*1080 videos, which is too good to burn on a
standard DVD My advice is, compressing the HD TiVo shows so as to fit DVD
5/ DVD 9 I used to select Common Video-> MPEG-2 Video(* mpg), and then
click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters The following
picture shows detailed settings: Step 4: Start converting TiVo to burn to DVD
Click “Convert” button and the TiVo converter will generate videos that are
compatible with Windows DVD Maker After conversion you can click the
“Open” button next to output path to find converted recordings
6. Additional tips-- edit the TiVo recordings to keep proper length and size As I
said, you can make the TiVo to DVD conversion as simple or as complex as
you want To cut off black edges, trim out unwanted ads, add watermark,
replace audio, you may click on “Edit” button to enter editing window of
TiVo to DVD Converter I Cut unwanted black edges Switch to Crop tab to cut
unwanted edges You can crop the video by adjusting the crop frame (drag the
green dotted green square frame to circle the part you want to retain) or setting
values (Left, Top, Width and Height) of crop area II Trim out bothering
commercial ads Under 'Trim' tab you are allowed to cut out unwanted video to
dvd burner part of selected clip To trim the video, simply type in desired time
value in ‘Start’ and ‘End’ box and click ‘Set’ button Or you can click
left square bracket and right square bracket to set start and end time when
playing the video Part 3
7. Burning TiVo to DVD with Windows DVD Maker Step 1 Click the "Start"
button and select "Windows DVD Maker" to run the program, then click the
"Add items" button from the top menu and browse to the folder were the
movies you want to burn are located By default, they should be found in the
"Videos" folder Step 2 Select the videos you want to burn and type the "Disc
title" Also, you may select the order in which the movies will be saved on DVD
To do that, select a movie and press the "Up" or "Down" button to change its
order Step 3 If you want to, you can click the "Options" button and set things
like the burning speed, the aspect ratio, the video format or you can choose if
the DVD will have a menu or not After you finished making the settings you
want, click the "OK" button and then "Next"
8. Step 4 At this step you can create a custom DVD menu or you can select a
predefined one To select a predefined menu, scroll the "Menu Styles" list and
select the one you like most You can customize it by pressing the "Customize
Menu" button and making the settings you want Also, you can change the
menu text by clicking the "Menu text" button and typing the text you want for
each button Step 5 When you have finished making all the customizations,
click the "Burn" button First, Windows DVD Maker will encode the movie in
the appropriate format and then it will burn it on DVD Usually, the encoding
process takes much more time than the burning so you have to patient If you
are Mac user, download Pavtube Pavtube Tivo Converter for Mac and burn
tivo to DVD with iDVD
