Convert TiVo to H.265 for Playback on Windows 10/Mac OS X El Capitan

Summary: Wondering how you can convert TiVo to H.265 for playback on Windows 10/Mac OS X El Capitan? Stop that and come here to find great ways.

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TiVos are great for time-shifting TV shows, but can place-shift them as well! Sometimes you may want to transfer the TiVo recordings to computer, send them to your iPod, iPad, PSP or archive them to DVD, build up your video library. Or you want to convert TiVo to H.265 for playback on Windows 10/Mac OS X El Capitan.

With the smaller size and higher quality, H.265 will surely become the mainstream video codec and format for Apple, or even other mobile device, and Windows. So why not transfer or copy your beloved TiVo recordings to H.265? If you are keen on this idea, keep reading to learn how to.

Don’t bother trying sorts of TiVo hacking methods, there is easier way to go! Pavtube Video Converter (Mac version) can help you achieve your goal smoothly. In fact, this TiVo Converter is an all-in-one video convert app. It can help you quickly and easily convert TiVo to any format like MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV, MPG, M4V and etc. with least quality loss. Besides TiVo, this video convert program can also help to convert between any popular video and audio formats as you need. You could get wonderful output files and never worry about out of audio/video sync. Plus, with the built-in video editing feature of the program, you can trim, crop, add watermark, add subtitle and more to your video files.

          

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How to convert TiVo to H.265 for playback on Windows 10/Mac OS X El Capitan?

Step 1: Download and install the corresponding program. Press “Options” button. Switch to “TiVo” tab in Option window and enter TiVo Media Access Key.



Tips: How to find your Media Access Key on TiVo? Go to “TiVo Central”> “Messages and Set Up” “Account and System Information”, and your Media Access Key would be there.

Step 2: Click “Add video” button to load TiVo files to the program. You can load several files at once thanks to “Add from folder” button. Or you can drag and drop TiVo files to the main interface directly.



Step 3: Click “Format” bar and select “HD Video>>H.265 HD Video (*.mp4)” as best output format.



Step 4: Press “Convert” button to convert TiVo to H.265 for playback on Windows 10/Mac OS X El Capitan.

Conclusion: This program is highly efficient because it’s boosted with CPU and GPU (30X faster). And a neat process bar will show the percentage and remaining time. After conversion, you can get the generated files by clicking “Open” button.

Further Reading:

• Review: H.265 Converter for Mac OS X El Capitan
• Edit H.265/HEVC in EDIUS 5/6/7/8
• The Easiest Way to Play H.265/HEVC 4K Recordings on Roku 3
• Encode/Decode Samsung NX1 H.265 Videos to WMM
• H.265 Converter- Encode/Decode H.265 to MKV, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV on Mac Yosemite
• Natively Convert TiVo to MP4 for Playing or Storing on Home Media Server
• How to Stream TiVo to NAS for Playback via Xbox?

Batch transcode Tivo shows to Adobe Premiere Elements 10 without commercials

A guide to show how to remove Tivo TV show commercials and batch convert them to MPEG-2, so that we can edit in Adobe Premiere Elements 10.

Q: I have TIVO and I have downloaded some programs, using TIVO Desktop, onto my computer. The thing is, I want to be able to import these programs onto my Adobe Premiere Elements 10, but always got an error said file format not supported. I have the Media Access key and can play them on Tivo box. So what's the next step?

Yes Tivo files cannot be playback unless you have the Media Access Key which should be on the back of your Tivo box; but it's not all. Tivo recordings are embedded in unique codecs so that you cannot load them into editing programs like Adobe Premiere as the latter doesn't include a proper decoder to unblock this.

Moreover, it's so annoying to have the commercials in Tivo recordings while most popular TV show or TV play have many episodes, like The Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy, Revenge, Teen Wolf, etc. so we have many ads in TV head and end.

I was so confused with all the tasks but finally found out a workflow to finish all of them: the Pavtube Tivo Video Converter. (Mac version is available here: Tivo Video Converter for Mac)

Pavtube Video Converter, which works as a prefect Tivo to Premiere Elements 10 Converter, can help you batch convert Tivo recordings to Adobe Premiere Elements 10 acceptable format without commercials, so that you can edit the trimmed videos smoothly.

How to batch convert Tivo to MPEG-2 for Adobe Premiere Elements 10?

Step 1. Load TiVo files.

You can directly drag and drop the TiVo files to the software, or click "Add" button to locate and import the TiVo files into the TiVo converter.

Tip: When first loading, this TiVo Converter will ask you to input your Media Access Key. Enter your Media Access Key, and click "OK" to confirm.



Step 2. Choose Premiere preferred format

Click "Format" pull down list to select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas> MPEG-2(*.mpg) as the best video format for Adobe Premiere Elements 10. WMV, MOV formats are the good choice as well.



Tips: If the default settings do not fit you requirement, you can click "Settings" icon to and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3. Remove Tivo commercials

Click "Edit" on the top to enter video editor window. Follow the "Trim" tab to choose the i/o point; click OK to confirm the trimming.

Step 4. Start Conversion

Click "Convert" button to start encoding TiVo to MPEG-2 for Premiere Elements 10; it will convert all the files in queue. When the conversion task is completed, click "Open" button to get the exported files quickly. Now load these videos to Premiere Elements 10 for editing.