Free way to convert TiVo recordings to MP4 on Mac/Windows

Summary: Ever tried to move your TiVo shows to MP4/H.264? This specific guide will help you know how to convert TiVo to MP4 format in a simple way. With a professional TiVo to MP4 Converter, all become easy!



TiVo provides us with marvelous TV shows to enrich our life. However, we often meet the issue that TiVo videos cannot be played on Windows, Mac, media players or be transferred to portable devices or be edited in video editing tools. It is quite hard to upload TiVo videos to YouTube or burn TiVo files to DVDs. As a matter of fact, all these issues are caused by the file format compatibility. No worry. This article discusses an easy way to get TV shows off TiVo and converting TiVo to MP4 videos for wide use.

FIRST, if you haven’t got TiVo recordings on your PC, you need to transfer TiVo to your PC first. And then convert TiVo shows to MP4 video.

1. Transfer TiVo TV shows to PC

Launch TiVo Desktop software on your PC. 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. Once all the shows you selected have been downloaded from your TiVo, they will appear in the Now Playing list in TiVo Desktop.



2. Download and install Brorsoft TiVo Video Converter to encode TiVo to MP4

This video app works as the best software to change TiVo to MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, WVM, etc with least quality loss. You should then be able to open, play, edit, upload the new file without any hassle. You could get wonderful output files and never worry about out of audio/video sync. If you are running on Mac, please turn to its equivalent Mac version TiVo Converter for Mac, which can help you convert TiVo to MP4 on Mac OS X(Mavericks included).

3. Import TiVo files to the software

Launch the TiVo file converter, click Add button to load your TiVo video files. When first loading, the program will ask you to input your Media Access Key. Simply enter your Media Access Key and click “OK” to confirm.



4. Chose output format

Choose MP4 as output format. Click Format bar and H.264 MP4, MPEG-4 are provided for you in Common Video profile list. To adjust video and audio parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, you could click on "Settings" button.



5. Click Convert button to start TiVo to MP4 conversion with the best TiVo to MP4 Converter.

Once finished, you can get the output files for via clicking on Open button effortlessly. Afterwards, you can use these files on your iPad, iPhone, Android portable devices, PC, media player or video editing programs as you want.

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