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What Version of iTiVo? Version 1.7.6 (1.7.6) What Version of MacOS X? 10.5.7 What download format did you select? iTiVo-1.7.6.dmg What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. anytime i try to begin download of a show 2. 3. Please provide any additional information below.
May 27, 2009
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May 27, 2009
Are you sure it's all 2 hour shows and not just that particular one? The Tivo sometimes saves 'bad' files which it can play but mencoder breaks on. There's not much I can do about it unfortunately. Sometimes it helps to select a different encoder (like Handbrake) but that's not always guaranteed to work either. I've certainly seen iTiVo work on 2-hour movies before without problems...
May 27, 2009
You are right. It's not all 2 hour shows. It looks like I have a couple shows that break mencoder. I don't know how to try a different encoder but greatly appreciate your wonderful program. Thanks.
May 27, 2009
To select a different encoder open up the Prefs, and under 'download format' select something like 'Handbrake iPhone' (which uses the handbrake encoder with the iphone preset), or if you have pyTivoX installed in /Applications, you can try using the 'ffmpeg' encoder. This is a known and annoying problem with tivo files. It turns out that someone wrote a very nice tool on windows that can fix them (it's called QuickStreamFix, and is part of the VideoReDo program). But nobody has written a similar one for the mac yet...
May 27, 2009
Thanks for the tip. I will try handbrake iphone format. I don't think I have pyTivoX, unless it came with iTivo.
May 27, 2009
pyTivoX doesn't come with iTiVo, but it's also free and you might like using it (it will let you play videos back to the tivo from your computer). You can get it at http://pytivox.googlecode.com/
May 31, 2009
Thanks for all your help. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to download the programs using the handbrake format. Any further suggestions would be appreciated. Also, thx for introducing me to pyTivoX. It's a great program. If you wouldn't mind giving instructions on how to use the ffmpeg encoder, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
May 31, 2009
The bad news is that it sounds like it's a bad file, and if handbrake couldn't deal with it, then I doubt ffmpeg will either. (you just select ffmpeg as the format from the formats under prefs -- but I dont think it will help either). The only solution I've heard of that works for those bad files is a windows program that comes with VideoReDo... :( Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. You may still be able to get away with selecting 'decrypt' as the format and viewing it with a program like VLC... But that's probably not what you're hoping to achieve :(... sorry You may try asking on the itivo forum (link in the FAQ) where there's a lot more people who might be helpful with other ideas.. In your shoes though, i'd give up on those files...
May 31, 2009
Thanks anyway! :-) I appreciate all your advice and time!
Sep 20, 2009
I get this problem from time to time. I've just tried using the original Tivo Decode (version 2.1) and it is able to process the file. Maybe mencoder has a bug in this version of iTiVo? |