TiVo to MPEG-Convert a TiVo HD recordings to MPG/MPEG-2/MPEG-4 file
TiVo is a great and popular home setup box for recording favorite TV drama programs and movies for later playback. If you record a show on your TiVo box, you can easily transfer and play it back on your PC or laptop. However, you may still wanna edit your own tivo shows and watch TiVo HD shows on your portable devices. As a result, converting TiVo to MPEG format is required for viewing and editing on your multi-media programs and computers.

This guide will show you how to convert TiVo files to MPEG with high quality and fast speed so that you can watch beloved TiVo shows on your Tablet like Asus Transformer, iPad 2, Toshiba Thrive, Xoom etc and edit your recorded shows at ease.
To convert TiVo files to MPEG, we need two applications.
One is the TiVo Desktop software. Transferring TiVo HD shows to PC or Mac is easy. After Launching TiVo Desktop software. Connect TiVo to your home network, and then the TiVo Desktop will provide you with a list of shows for transferring to your PC. Then please transfer the TiVo TV shows you want to PC. And there are detailed instructions by TiVo’s official site:
Transferring TiVo shows to your PC
The other one is a TiVo to MPEG Converter. Here I use a professional TiVo Video Converter from Pavtube Studio. This program will help you to quickly and easily convert TiVo to MPEG files. Moreover, the output files will work perfectly in audio and video synchronization. Download Free Trial of TiVo to MPEG Converter .
Converting TiVo to MPEG is easy. Here is how:
1. After installing and running the TiVo to MPEG Converter program, just typing your TiVo code in Option—TiVo window—Media Access Key, then click “Add” to import all .tivo files.
2. Choose output format MPEG, you can click on “Format” bar and follow either Copy > Directly Copy or Common Video> MPEG-1/ MPEG-2/ MPEG-4.
Directly Copy for directly converting TiVo the MPEG files. This Copying TiVo to MPEG process need not re-encoding, just remove the copy pretection from tivo shows. And TiVo Converter will decrypt the shows to *.mpg or *.ts files. Nowadays the shows are normally HD 1920*1080 videos.

Common Video> MPEG-4 will make you convert TiVo to MPEG-4 for your iPad 2, Xoom, Galaxy Tab 10.1, iPhone, Asus Eee Pad etc as output format. You can click on “Setting” to do some settings like adjusting resolution, bitrate, framerate, codec, etc for your portable devices.

3. Click “Convert” button to start the TiVo to MPEG conversion. Just a few minutes, the conversion from TiVo to MPEG will be completed!
Tips: For edit your tivo shows and burn them to DVD, you can follow Common Video> MPEG-2. This will compress the normally HD 1920*1080 TiVo shows to MPEG-2 so as to fit DVD 5/ DVD 9.
After Conversion, Now you can play converted TiVo HD shows on PC or Copy to your portable device for smoothly playing back. That’s all.




