'Last week I successfully transferred a bunch of shows off my older Tivo HD to my computer with the latest Tivo Transfer app just fine. Now, I use it to try and snag some new episodes of the same off of my new Tivo Premiere and most of them have the 'Red Circle Slash' icon next to them. I've known that is the cable the Tivo company restricting us from doing this. Is any anything I can do to remove or get off the protection.'
Kmttg is a Java based program I wrote to facilitate TivoToGo (TTG) transfers that can download, create pyTivo metadata, decrypt, run comskip & comcut (commercial detection and removal), create closed captions files and re-encode multiple shows you select from your Tivos all automatically. Kmttg Vs Pytivo.
It's easy to transfer Tivo recordings to your computer with Tivo Desktop, however, Tivo recordings marked with a red circle slash can usually not be transferred due to the copy protection. There are some free programs 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 or operate. If you want to find a more simple to use application, you can download Pavtube Video Converter/Mac, the program has a free trial version with the ability to remove the copy protection from Tivo recordings and convert into a more common file format like AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV for you to easily play on computer with Windows Media Player or transfer to Android phones/tablets.
Tips: The free trial version will help you to output a non copy-protected Tivo recordings with Pavtube watermark on it. You can register for a full version without watermark leaving on the output video.
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How to Remove Tivo Recordings Copy Protection?
Step 1: Enter Media Access Key.
The copy protected Tivo recordings usually have a Media Access Key, you can find it by logging into your Tivo account at Tivo and clicking the 'Media Access Key' link on the right side of the screen. Then hit the button on the main interface, in the pop out window, enter the Media Access Key for the Tivo files, then press the 'OK' button.
Step 2: Import Tivo files.
After entering the Media Access Key, you can successfully import Tivo files by clicking 'File' > 'Load Video/Audio' or 'Load from Folder' to the program.
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Step 3: Define an output file format.
Go to 'Format' drop-down bar, select on of your desired format to output, for example, you can choose 'MPEG-2 Video(*.mpg)' to output from Tivo for buring to DVD.
Step 4: Start Tivo recordings copy protection removing process.
Press the right-bottom 'Convert' button to carry out the conversion process.
When the conversion is over, hit the 'Open' folder on the main interface to find and locate the converted files, transfer Tivo recordings to your computer with the simple steps below:
1. Connect your Tivo box to your home network and then install and launch the Tivo Desktop Software for the PC on your PC.
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2. Click 'Pick Recordings to Transfer.' A window showing your Tivo box's 'Now Playing' or 'My Showings' list appear.
3. Check the box next to the title of the recordings you want to transfer.
4. Click 'Start Transfer.' A transfer window will pop out. Minecraft lite shaders for mac 1.8.
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5. The shows you have transferred to your computer will be listed in Tivo Desktop's 'Now Playing List'. Click 'Tivo Recordings' to reach the 'Now Playing List'.
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6. To watch a show, select any title from the list and then click 'Play'. You computer's default media player such as Windows Media Player will starts to play the Tivo shows automatically.
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- 1.6.19
- Critical Fix: Settings dialog would crash on save if there was no list of TiVos. (i.e. if MAK was not set or wrong)
- Change: Updated to newest version of installer program as I was getting reports of the installer failing on Catalin
- Critical Fix: Settings dialog would crash on save if there was no list of TiVos. (i.e. if MAK was not set or wrong)
- 1.6.15
- Critical Fix: Error connecting dialog would display instead of settings dialog if MAK was incorrect
- Critical Fix: Downloads would fail if output path contained a period
- Critical Fix: Error connecting dialog would display instead of settings dialog if MAK was incorrect
- 1.6.12
- Critical Fix: Error connecting dialog would display when trying to download file
- 1.6.11
- Fix: Error connecting dialog would display on first launch even when pyTivo was running fine
- Enhancement: New option to check for beta versions of pyTivo
- Enhancement: New feature to check free space on download drive and prompt user if insufficient for download
- 1.6.9
- Fix: Day listed next to recordings was off by one day
- Enhancement: Ability to rearrange TiVo tabs and disable TiVos you don't want to see
- 1.6.7
- Critical Fix: Error in code caused pyTivo to crash when renaming the file after TS errors were detected
- 1.6.6
- Fix: Some shows use duplicate episode IDs which prevents them from displaying properly in the Desktop app
- Fix: Retry connection from error dialog was not working
- Change: Upgraded to newest build of ffmpeg
- Enhancement: Retry count added to file name
- Enhancement: Additional logging added to disclose the location of TS transfer errors
- Expiremental: Desktop can now be accessed via a browser including remotely from another PC or mobile device
- 1.6.4
- Critical Fix: Some files might fail transferring back to TiVo due to bug
- Fix: Sortable file name feature wasn't working
- Expiremental: Desktop can now be accessed via a browser for OSes not supported by Desktop app
- 1.6.2
- Fix: Pressing Yes in update dialog did not properly launch web browser
- Fix: Installer now checks that pyTivo is closed before installing over an older version
- Change: Options dialog rearranged for simplicity andoptions to override 3rd party exes has been removed
- Enhancement: pyTivo Desktop now has Edit menu so Cut, Copy, Paste and Select All work in settings
- Enhancement: New options to monitor TS downloads and retry if a errors are detected
- Enhancement: New option in installer to launch pyTivo at user logon
- 1.6.1
- Critical fix: Bug in 1.6.0 prevented PS button from functioning when in 'allow me to select' mode.
- Critical fix: tivolibre was broken by code signing and would not run
- Fix: Sortable naming always used regardless of setting
- Fix: Save Shares button menu would display down off screen
- Fix: pyTivo could stall if user stopped transfer from TiVo
- Fix: Uncaught exception in pyTivo server would cause unexpected behavior
- Enhancement: Overhauled UI to display information in a more convenient way
- Enhancement: Added refresh button that will reload the TiVo My Shows list
- Enhancement: Warn user if pyTivo is actively transferring and they try to stop or exit pyTivo
- Enhancement: New option allows user to select TS/PS format for every individual file
- Enhancement: pyTivo now uses tivolibre to fix TS transfers so they no longer stall or fail when transferring back to TiVo
- Enhancement: pyTivo now uses tivolibre for all decrypting
- 1.5.15
- Critical Fix: pyTivoTray may not exit due to stalled version check thread
- Fix: pyTivo Desktop app will now find pyTivo server even if you've changed the port
- Fix: Bug could cause some TiVo show lists not to populate
- Fix: Update zeroconf to newer version which might help with some network issues
- Enhancement: User interface changed so that show list now scrolls independently of the rest of the UI
- Enhancement: You can now disable Suggestions so they are not displayed and download all button ignores them
- Enhancement: Download all button now works even when groups are enabled
- Enhancement: Added info to the bottom of the list containing count of shows, recordings and suggestions
- 1.5.12
- Enhancement: Sortable name option inserts record date after show title in YYYY-MM-DD format so files are easily sortable
- Enhancement: pyTivoDesktop application will now exit when window is close
- Enhancement: Higher resolution tray icon so it shouldn't look pixelated on high DPI displays
- Enhancement: Installer and all apps are now signed using my Apple ID certificate so they shouldn't be blocked by GateKeeper
- 1.5.11
- First release for Mac OSX