![]() Steve hunted around and found the open-source cTiVo application he used to run. Software Solution with cTiVoĪges ago we had some software that could pull video from our TiVos, as long as the shows were not protected by Digital Rights Management, aka DRM. They asked us whether we might find some way to get the video off of it to save for posterity. They didn’t get rid of it because it had that memorable video of the Padres game on it. It was a Series 3 HD which was released in 2008, so it’s now 13 years old. Time has marched on, and a few years ago they stopped using this ancient TiVo which was actually a hand-me-down from us after we stopped using it. It worked and it was really fun for them to have that recording. Before they left, they set up their TiVo to record the game in hopes of getting video of themselves in these amazing seats. The resulting files would be about 30% the size of the original.Seven years ago our daughter Lindsay and her husband Nolan had the very rare opportunity to get seats in the front row right behind home plate at a San Diego Padres game at Petco Park. The S2 was mpeg2, so after the commercials are removed, transcode using handbrakeCLI (or the GUI or an ffmpeg script), and you might want to use ccextractor to get captions/subtitles out and include them back in the h.264/h.265 mkv files. ![]() Didn't use any of the other settings for processing. I just had some patterns that pulled the files off. I remember kmttg being slow, but my S2 TiVo was G-only wifi and didn't support hi-def anything. ![]() It is Windows-only but one of the 2 remaining reasons I have Windows still. vidcutter can read a format that comskip puts out, but it isn't very user friendly.Ī very long time ago, I purchased VideoRedo Plus which embeds a version of comskip that is better at finding commercial breaks, has fairly intuitive controls and quick cut-points. Comskip isn't perfect, so manually correcting the cut points is necessary. Back then, I used kmttg to get the files off it, then used comskip to mark potential commercial locations. I stopped using my TiVo-S2 a long time ago. If you have read this far, thanks! i would appreciate feedback and comments! I would appreciate any comments from the community that will help me decide on how best to move, transcode, and delete commercials from my TiVo content.Īnd i would *especially* appreciate any comments from someone who is actually moving TiVo content from the TiVo to a Linux box!! I would prefer #2 or #3 above, if possible. At the time this was written, Comskip was a Windows-only program, though there is now a Linux version, so maybe Wine wouldn't be required. Cons: There is a thread in the Ubuntu forums by michael37 which explains how to set this up, but the instructions and software they describe date back to 2011. Use cTivo by running VirtualBox+Mac OS on my Linux box. Cons: This requires an unlocking hack on VMware to support MacOS.Ģ. Use cTivo by running VMware+Mac OS on my Linux box. I want to 1-move the files to my Linux box 2-decrypt/transcode into mp4 3-automatically skip commercialsġ. Therefore, I am exploring ways to move content from the TiVo to my Linux box (3.5 GHz AMD 8320 8 core CPU, 16GB RAM) running 17.10. It works perfectly, but is very slow on that old hardware. I have been using cTivo to move and transcode TiVo content on my 8-year old Mac laptop (1.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 4MB RAM).
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