How to burn Tivo videos to DVD with Tivo to DVD burner?

However, what if you want to share an episode of Prison Break or The Apprentice to your friend who missed it? Sure they can drive by to your house and watch it from your TiVo but this can be inconvenient as well as may interrupt you from watching other shows. Fortunately, there are now products that come with TiVo and a DVD burner in one package.

With this, you will be able to record the TV shows stored in your TiVo hard drive in a DVD disc. This means that you will be able to save your favorite TV shows in DVD as well as erasing the stored files in the hard drive after burning it.

With this integrated feature, you will be able to save your favorite TV shows and at the same time, remove videos from your TiVo to let you store or record more TV shows.

Sharing is also easier because once you recorded the show in DVD format you can easily give the DVD disc with the recorded show to someone who wants to watch it.

Whether it is the Monday night football or your favorite TV series, you will be able to record it from your TiVo with today’s TiVo-compatible DVD burners.

Burn TiVo to DVD - This article tells you how to copy, convert TiVo to DVD and lets you enjoy your favorite TiVo movies recorded by TiVo on DVD Player. To transfer TiVo to DVD, follow the steps below:

How to convert, burn TiVo to DVD?

Best Solution: Straight convert TiVo videos to DVD and burn DVD playable on any home DVD player using ConvertXtoDVD (download full version, download free trial). It is all-in-one video conversion and burning software which supports various formats like TiVo, AVI, MPEG, MKV, MP4, WMV, MOV, VOB, DVR-MS, etc. Helps you create DVD menus, customize chapter, add subtitles, add background audio/video and burn DVDs with sharp image and luxurious audio quality.

Tips: Tranfer TV shows from TiVo to PC
Before burning TiVo movies to DVD, you need to first transfer TiVo movies to your PC. To transfer TiVo movies on your PC, you need to download TiVo Desktop software. When your TiVo is connected to your home network, TiVo Desktop provides you with a list of available shows for transferring to your PC.

You can play TiVo video files using Windows Media Player.

Solution 2: TiVo -> MPEG -> DVD

1) Convert TiVo to MPEG

DirectShow Dump is a free utility to extract the content of .TiVo files as unprotected MPEGs.
1. Download DirectShow Dump. site1 site2

2. Install and run, Click "Add Files" and load the TiVo files you'd like to convert.

Hints: If you can not convert Tivo to MPEG successfully, please download the Microsoft .NET 1.1 architecture since maybe the conversion from TIVO to MPEG is dependent on it.

2) Convert MPEG to DVD

1. Download AVI/MPEG to DVD/VCD Converter software and launch.

2. Since We want to convert and burn MPEG to DVD, so choose 'To DVD'.

Now you have to select between "Merge" and "Batch" tabs. The former will join all the video files you add to one DVD file (including VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS, etc.). The latter will encode each video file to a different DVD (so that you burn it in more DVDs).

Click "Add" to add video files. Besides MPEG, You can also add AVI, WMV, MOV, etc. files.

(Optional) Set "Output quality", "NTSC or PAL", etc.

3. Click "Convert and Burn" button to start converting MPEG to DVD's files.

4. "CD/DVD Burning engine" will be launched automatically after video conversion done. If you'd like to burn DVD with another DVD burning software such as Nero, please click "Cancel" and burn the files in "DVD_Disk1" folder to DVD later.

It is so easy to burn, convert TiVo to DVD playable on DVD player!

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