Mac2Tivo - Does It Recognize Recorded Tivo Shows?

[atlcanefan]

I just bought Toast 10 and I have a Series 3 HD TiVo and a newly installed Premiere TiVo box. I spent a lot of time transferring shows from my old Series 2 to both my Mac and Series 3 box with the thought that once I set up the Premiere box I could transfer the shows back. I am able to open the Mac2TiVo application and add "My TiVo Recordings" folder AND my TiVo boxes recognize my Mac. My problem is that it shows there are no recordings when there clearly are quite a few. Is this not a feature of Toast 10? Somebody please help!!!

[tsantee]

Any other suggestions? I've doublechecked and I'm running the newest version of Toast (10.0.8) and Mac2TiVo (1.1) and the same results. It does not want to recognize recorded shows that are stored on my Mac in the TiVo Recordings folder (with the .TiVo extension).

 

It really shouldn't be this difficult and I'm starting to get annoyed that I paid close to $100 for an application to do ONE thing specifically and it doesn't work.

Other than trashing to the com.roxio.Mac2Tivo.plist file in your user>Library>Preferences folder and following all the instructions in the Mac2Tivo Help file, I'm all out of ideas.

[atlcanefan]

Other than trashing to the com.roxio.Mac2Tivo.plist file in your user>Library>Preferences folder and following all the instructions in the Mac2Tivo Help file, I'm all out of ideas.

 

Thanks for the posts tsantee....I don't know how you got it to work, but I read through the entire help file and it contains a list of supported file types. Strangely enough .TiVo is not one of them. Has anyone gotten this feature to work with the .TiVo files that TiVo Transfer creates?

 

Is there third party software that has to be added for this to work?

[tsantee]

Thanks for the posts tsantee....I don't know how you got it to work, but I read through the entire help file and it contains a list of supported file types. Strangely enough .TiVo is not one of them. Has anyone gotten this feature to work with the .TiVo files that TiVo Transfer creates?

 

Is there third party software that has to be added for this to work?

There is a freeware called Tivo Decoder that removes the Tivo wrapper from the file so it becomes a standard MPEG 2 video file.

[notaclone]

I give up. Made sure I had latest version. It shows 0 file count in Mac2Tivo, Snow or reg Leopard.

So I installed TiVo Desktop for the Mac, launched the pane with command click, and off we go, sharing video. Good thing, as I removed 100gigs off the Tivo before discovering Toast Mac2Tivo is a turkey and I can't transfer back with it.

[tsantee]

This is a problem that's fixed with the Mac2Tivo application included with the Toast 10.0.8 update.

[atlcanefan]

This is a problem that's fixed with the Mac2Tivo application included with the Toast 10.0.8 update.

 

I just downloaded the update, but still no fix

[tsantee]

I just downloaded the update, but still no fix

The problem you're describing is the same as I had with my TiVo Premiere prior to the Toast 10.0.8 update (which includes Mac2TiVo 1.1). After the update it is working fine for me. My only guess is that somehow the older version is still communicating with the TiVo instead of the new version. Try turning off the server in Mac2TiVo, quitting and reopening the application and starting the server again. I know this version works.

[notaclone]

Mac2Tivo is not for moving TiVo files back to the TiVo. It will convert files from a Quicktime supported format to an MPEG2 file that the TiVo can play and store on the TiVo. If the file is already in MPEG2 format the TiVo will just copy the file to the device. The resulting MPEG2 files are stored on the TiVo's Now Playing list until the user removes them.

Regards,

Roxio Customer Care

[atlcanefan]

The problem you're describing is the same as I had with my TiVo Premiere prior to the Toast 10.0.8 update (which includes Mac2TiVo 1.1). After the update it is working fine for me. My only guess is that somehow the older version is still communicating with the TiVo instead of the new version. Try turning off the server in Mac2TiVo, quitting and reopening the application and starting the server again. I know this version works.

 

Any other suggestions? I've doublechecked and I'm running the newest version of Toast (10.0.8) and Mac2TiVo (1.1) and the same results. It does not want to recognize recorded shows that are stored on my Mac in the TiVo Recordings folder (with the .TiVo extension).

 

It really shouldn't be this difficult and I'm starting to get annoyed that I paid close to $100 for an application to do ONE thing specifically and it doesn't work.