TiVo is a popular home setup box for recording favorite TV drama programs and movies for later playback. If you have recorded some movies or TV shows, you may want to move some TiVo recordings to different screens such as the handheld smartphone and tablet to kill the time. Converting .TiVo files to MP4 is the best idea since MP4 files is widely supported and can bey played on almost all media player, computer, laptop, tablet, mobile device, gaming system without any trouble. Then, how to turn .TiVo files to MP4 with best results. Check here.
How to Convert TiVo to MP4 Format on Windows and Mac
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There are some free programs out there that can assist you to remove commercials from Tivo recordings, one of them is the Perl program KMTTG, but you may find the process is too complicated to operate. If you need an easier-to-use yet faster program to supports decryption and does quality conversion task, EaseFab Video Converter should definitely stand out as the best solution. The TiVo HD Video Converter will remove DRM automatically while transcoding TiVo shows to MP4 with fast encoding speed and excellent output quality. Besides, the program's "Trim" function lets you simply remove ads from TiVo recordings.
Furthermore, this feature-rich TiVo file converter can encode and re-encode any other video formats including but not limited to MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI, HEVC, H264, WMV, etc. More than 200 device profiles are pre-configured, which is great if you're unsure of what format you need to converting TiVo files for your device. Now download the right version according to computer OS and follow the 3 simple steps below to perform the TiVo to MP4 conversion on Windows and Mac.
PS: The below steps work on Windows PC, the workflow for Mac users is almost the same. Before the conversion, you'll need to transfer your TiVo shows from your TiVo box to your PC. Follow Windows (Windows 8) users, follow the Instructions to Transfer TV shows from TiVo to PC. For Mac users, the article "How to convert TiVo to MOV on Mac" will give you some instructions.
Step 1. Load TiVo videos
Start up this program, Drag & drop TiVo videos to the program. Or click Add Videos to import all .tivo files.
Note: When first loading, The TiVo HD Video Converter will ask you to input your Media Access Key. Simply enter your Media Access Key, and click "OK" to confirm.
Step 2. Select MP4 as the output file
Then click Profile and select MP4 as the output format. To get the best possible output quality and smallest file size, convert TiVo to HEVC MP4. It has 50% smaller size at the same quality. But please make sure your device can support HEVC/H,265 files.
If you need to convert TiVo files for iPhone, Android device, YouTube, web services, you can also find a profile.
Tips: In addition to selecting HEVC MP4 as the output format, flexible options are offered to further reduce the size and quality of the converted MP4 videos. Click "Settings" button to enter into "Settings" window. Here you can adjust video/audio codecs, pixel dimensions, frame rate, bit rate, audio sample rate, etc. to finally decide the size and quality of the converted MP4 video. Remember that the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.
Step 3. Start converting TiVo to MP4
Click Convert button to start TiVo to MP4 video conversion. The conversion process will take a while, and you'll see an encoding progress bar.
Once finished, click the Open button in the main interface and you can locate the encoded TiVo files effortlessly. And then you are able to use these files as you want for your portable devices, PC, media player or video editing programs.
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