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According to Apple, iPad gives up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music. By any means, it is a great portable video player. So why not transfer you TiVo recordings to iPad? No matter where you are, whenever it is, just take out the iPad and enjoy your favorite TV programs or football matches freely! Nice idea, isn’t it? In the following guide I would like to share with you how to get your TiVo recordings ready for iPad (iPad Wi-Fi +3G). In order to enjoy TiVo recordings on iPad, you got to transfer TiVo to your Mac and then convert the TiVo files to iPad compatible formats.

1. Transfer TiVo recordings to Mac (or MacBook)

Once you’ve recorded your favorite shows on your TiVo box, you can transfer them to your Mac with certain software as long as your TiVo box is connected to your home network. Although the TiVo Desktop software for the Mac (supplied by TiVo) does not allow user to transfer TiVo recordings to Mac, there are other freeware can accomplish this task, like the TiVoDecode Manager. Run the app, enter your TiVo's IP address in the TiVo IP Address box. Next click the Prefs button in the lower-right corner. Fill in the Media Access Key.  A list of shows on your TiVo will appear in the Now Playing list. Select the show and click Add Show To Queue. The selected show now appears in the Download Queue list. Click Download Location to select where you want to save it. The app allows you to convert TiVo shows to MPEG-4 video for iPod. Of course you can play these TiVo shows with QuickTime Player. To convert the recordings for iPad, you can use Pavtube Mac TiVo to iPad Converter.



2. Convert TiVo recordings to to iPad compatible formats.
There are too many converting tools on market, yet few do convert TiVo files. A recommended one is Pavtube Video Converter for Mac, which converts TiVo files as well as HD footages, Flash videos, Matroska container format, tec.

Before converting TiVo files, let’s take a look at the iPad-supported video formats:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, MacM stereo audio in .avi file format.
Now please refer to the converting procedures below:

Step 1. Input Media Access Key.
Launch Pavtube Video Converter, Click on the "Option" button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media Access Key. Click "OK" to confirm.



Step 2: Import TiVo files.
Now click "Add" to import all .tivo files to Pavtube Video Converter.



Step 2: Select an output format for iPad, iPad 3G, or iPad Wi-Fi+3G
Click on the pull down menu of "Format" and then tap "iPad", after that, you will see three options optimized for iPad showing as below, including "iPad HD Video (*.mp4)", "iPad Video H.264 (*.MP4)", "iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)". You can select any one of them according to your own needs.



Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters
You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup window to optimize the output file quality. Following are the recommended settings to get best playback quality.



Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Afterwards, connect your iPad to your Mac, and then sync the videos to iPad via iTunes.



Provided that you prefer using PC to Mac, Pavtube Video Converter is a better choice for you to convert TiVo recordings to iPad.

This article tells you how to copy, convert TiVo to enjoy your favorite TiVo movies recorded by TiVo on iPhone. To transfer TiVo for playback on iPhone, iPhone 3G, or iPhone 3GS, just follow the steps below:
First, you get to transfer TiVo to your PC; second, you need to convert the TiVo files to video formats that your iPhone supports. The following two programs will assist you to accomplish perfect conversions. Click the link and you could download and install them for preparation.

TiVo Desktop software    Pavtube Video Converter  

Step-by-step guide: How to convert TiVo to iPhone, iPhone 3G?

(1) How to tranfer TiVo TV shows to PC


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. Then please transfer the selected TiVo TV shows to PC.

2) Convert TiVo to iPhone, iPhone 3G
This Pavtube Video Converter gives you the easiest and most efficient way to  convert tons of video files like TiVo, MKV, AVCHD, HD, AVI, WMV, MOV etc to iPhone video MP4, MOV, M4R, MP3, AAC. The output quality is very good as you wish and never happen out of sync.

Download it free from here: Pavtube Video Converter

Step 1: Launch this program, and then click “Add” to import all .tivo files.

Step 2: Please choose the output video format like iPhone (.*mp4) and destination folder to put converted iPhone files. It supports all iPhone models like iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS.

And you can click “Settings” button to set video size, video quality, audio quality, channels (mono or stereo) in the new profile panel to get customize iPhone videos.

Step 3: Click “Start” button to start the TiVo to iPhone conversion.

After running, you can drag the converted iPhone MP4 video files to iTunes and then sync to your iPhone. Now the mission of TiVo to iPhone conversion is completed.

3. Enter Pavtube Video Converter and you will learn more about this program.

So you just have bought the movie Avatar in Blu-ray, and wanna rip and add it to your NAS for free watching on your wide screen TV via NMT Popcorn Hour C-200? If you have not yet found the proper blu-ray rip software to help you finishing the ripping task, this article may do you a favor. It intends to show you how to rip/convert Blu-ray Avatar to the format compatible with NMT Popcorn Hour C-200 for storing on your NAS server.

Required software:
Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
With full Blu-ray disc support, This Blu-ray ripping software is able to remove different copy protections of commercial BD discs, no matter AACS, or BD+. The new released MKB V17 protection is supported as well. The big news is that now it is capable of cracking the new BD+ copy protection implemented in Blu-ray Avatar, so it will never let you encounter problems caused by the encryption issues any more. It will definitely guarantee you an excellent playback quality on your NMT C-200, or other media devices or video player software. Go to find a detailed tutorial as below.
Step 1: Click “BD/DVD ROM”, “BD/DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load BD Avatar movie files



Step 2: Select output format for NMT C-200
Since it is clearly stated in C-200 Technical Specifications that C-200 is able to play MPEG2 Transport Stream (TS, TP, TRP, M2T, M2TS, MTS), to keep full playback quality, you can choose directly copying the Blu-ray Avatar M2TS streams to store on your NAS without any quality loss, and still with the .m2ts file extension.
Click on the dropdown list of “Format”, and then follow "Copy"> "Directly Copy".



If you want to downsize the output file size whilst ripping Blu-ray Avatar, you can then choose other file formats supported by NMT Popcorn Hour C-200, so as to save the storage space of your NAS. This Avatar Blu-ray ripping software provides users with a large amount of output formats. You can select anyone of them to convert as long as they are playable on your NMT C-200.



If you do not use “Directly Copy”, then you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters to customize the output file quality, these parameters include codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels.



Step 3: Click “Convert” button to start converting the Blu-ray movie Avatar
Once the ripping task is completed, you can click “Open” button to get the output Blu-ray Avatar files stored on your NAS, and then connect C-200 to the NAS and your home theater system for perfect playback.

If you wannna know more features about this Blu-ray ripping software, you can visit how to rip Blu-ray movies via using Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper.