Guide: Backing up DirecTV TiVo Recordings to DVDR

Guide: Backing up DirecTV TiVo Recordings to DVDR 

I know it's a niche market but I decided since I was figuring it out for myself, I may as well write a quick guide for it. I'm going to get with Doom9 to see if he wants to add it here to the site or not. Until then, you can access it here... EDIT: I updated the link so it is now valid and I removed the old information that was posted here. The current info is listed in the "Tivo to DVDR" section on the above site.

WARNING!! I think I may have sung the praises of BeSweet too early. I did not have any trouble in my preliminary testing but it has TOTALLY distorted my audio on louder dynamic sections. I'm going to have to devise another way of working with the audio. EDIT: I've corrected the guide in order to take into account working with the audio such that you will not get distortion. Stick to WinAmp and SoftEncode and you will be fine.

Hey DSPguru! Certainly didn't mean to "knock" your software or anything. It does a lot of things very well. It just didn't work out for me without distortion on dynamic passages. Thanks for the info on the dll! Look forward to future versions!

This is really interesting! I just got a DirecTIVO a few weeks ago, and the way I usually back stuff up is through the analog ports, but this method kicks ass!! But I have to find out how to even do this...I upgraded the hard drive in my old SA tivo but I never looked into the network addons you could do to it.

All the hardware you need is at 9thtee.com. It's a lot of reading, but I highly recommend you read to learn all the in's and out's to all things DirecTiVo related. I used to capture things via analog as well and this is definitely a huge improvement over it. It's faster than realtime and it's perfect quality. (Or at least every bit as good as whatever compression DirecTV is sending)

I've visited that site before when I wanted to learn about upgrading my SA Tivo's hard drive. That was pretty easy and the results were great. I turned my 14 hour unit into a 61 hour unit :) I'll probalby upgrade my DirecTIVO too but I'm waiting for the warranty to expire. I'm not sure what kind of warranty it has actually hmmmm

Well, if it's just the original, it's only 1 year. I bought the extended warranty which covered it for 5 because a lot of people were reporting failed modems that cost $90 to replace. Since that's how much the extended warranty was, I figured I would cover it for everything for 5 years. hehe :) Anyway, I'm sure I voided it a long time ago. Besides, with the hacks, you can use the turbonet card to "dial out" over the Internet instead of having to use the phoneline. Should the hard drive go to crap, I'll just buy another and reload my image. Would take too long to ship my unit off anyway. Back on topic though, I will update the guide at some point to include editing the MPEG streams so that you can remove commercials. It's sort of a painful process at first but so is re-authoring when you don't know what you're doing. ;) Once you get used to it, it's not so bad. I'll post here when I get a chance.

TiVo to DVDR Guide Updated... 

I know this thread is old as hell but I wanted to keep info relevant for anyone searching. I've updated the guide on my site. It includes an easier way to edit commercials out and is more reliable than the old method I had posted.