Download/Install

Functionality/Use

This program is intended to wrap the functionality of the TiVoConverter.exe program that is part of the TiVo Desktop software from TiVo Inc. TiVo Desktop and TiVoConverter.exe are owned and Copyright by TiVo Inc., and their mention of them in conjunction with TiVo Converter Wrapper is not intended to violate said ownership or Copyright in any way, shape, or form.

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TiVo Converter Wrapper will use the TiVo Desktop registry settings to locate your TiVo Desktop installation. From there it will find and read in your encodeprofiles.xml file, and display a listing of the available conversion profiles. The default profile will match your current TiVo Desktop conversion profile, if one is set, otherwise it will simply select the first profile. The profiles are listed in the same order as in the encodeprofiles.xml file.

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The "Exit" button will also not stop any running conversions, and will exit the program.

The "About" button will bring up the About dialog.

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The "Main" tab allows you to select the "Converter Profile" you would like to use.

Use the "Add File(s)" button to bring up a file dialog and select as many *.TiVo files as you like (it will only let you choose *.TiVo files). The *.TiVo files can live anywhere on your hard drive, they do not need to be in your "My Documents\My TiVo Recordings" folder. You may use this button as many times as you like selecting files from several different locations on your hard drive. The files you chose will be organized into a list in below the button.

If you choose files that you do not wish to convert, simply select the files in question, and press the "Remove File(s)" button. The files will be removed from the list.

To start the conversion process for the files in the list, press the "Start Conversion(s)" button. Doing this will create a new numbered tab for each file in the list, and the list will then be cleared. Each of these tabs will track the conversion process for the user. TiVo Desktop should acknowledge that files are being converted in the same manner as it does when it uses its automatic conversion process.

The "Close All" button will remove all the numbered tabs that are tracking conversions. However, this will not stop the actual conversions, and then will continue to run. You will just no longer be able to stop the conversions without using the Windows Task Manager.

The "PSP Rename" checkbox will enable automatic renaming of files found in the "Sony PSP" sub-folder of the "My TiVo Recordings for Portables" folder. The rename is a monitor that watches the sub-folder and looks for files that already do not match the "M4Vxxxxx.MP4", and uniquely renames them. This means that files that have already been renamed to match this format will not be renamed, and will not be over-written. It will not rename hidden files because TiVoConverter uses hidden files as intermediaries in the conversion process. If you do not check this off, renaming will not occur. It can therefore be used in conjunction with the conversion process, or as a post-processing feature - conversions do not have to run for it to take effect. This is why it is off by default.

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The "Diag" tab tracks diagnostic messages from the GUI, which can be used to diagnose problems.

The tab will track the initialization steps taken by the application during startup.

The tab will also track renames performed by the "PSP Rename" feature.

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On a numbered conversion tab, the "Stop Conversion" button will both stop that particular file conversion completely, and will remove that tab from the program.

"Save As..." allows you to save the current text contents of the conversion process.

"Copy All" allows you to copy the current text contents of the conversion process to the cut&paste buffer. This text can then be pasted into another application as desired.