not sure this is the right place, but how do i rip shows/movies from Tivo?

[James3shin]

thanks in advance

 

[Hyperblaze]

we don't condone piracy here.

 

[James3shin]

people rip stuff off of Tivo here all the time, such as clips from late shows (leno and co.). I need to find out how to do it get a clip of Bette Midler award show for a family member.

 

[James3shin]

Aren't Top Gear episodes ripped off Tivo, so they can be DL'd here?

 

[edi sucks]

why would this be illegal? i'd like to know how to do this too so I can get that tom cruise vs. matt lauer clip on my computer...

 

[MDE]

I use my TV tuner card.

 

[FleshLight]

Connect the Tivo to the video-in of your video/tv-tuner card.

 

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
we don't condone piracy here.

Is using a VCR to record a TV show piracy? Supreme Court said no in Sony v. Universal Studios. How does moving a program from a TIVO to another medium suddenly become piracy?

I just use the built in piracy function in my DirecTIVO to do this. They call it "Save to VCR".

 

[James3shin]

ok, thanks for the suggestions everyone. I got the file off of Tivo, *.tivo file i believe. I can get it to some mpeg form and want to compress the file into a more manageable size via divx or some other encoder, but virtualdub can't do it for some reason. Any suggestions?

 

[James3shin]

anybody?

 

[RossMAN]

This isn't the correct forum, I would SEARCH then post here
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/index.php?

 

[Goosemaster]

I thought there was software that let you do it straight from them using wma with copy protection...no?

 

[nageov3t]

buy a tvtuner.

 

[KarenMarie]

I would get Tivo if I could rip stuff from it. But now... hellfire, if I record to vhs, I have them forever. But with Tivo.... eventually, I will have to start deleting stuff for new stuff. So, if I cannot save the old stuff to DVD before deleting it to record new stuff.. There is no point for me to have Tivo.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
I thought there was software that let you do it straight from them using wma with copy protection...no?

TiVo desktop?

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
I would get Tivo if I could rip stuff from it. But now... hellfire, if I record to vhs, I have them forever. But with Tivo.... eventually, I will have to start deleting stuff for new stuff. So, if I cannot save the old stuff to DVD before deleting it to record new stuff.. There is no point for me to have Tivo.

http://www.tivo.com/2.1.2.asp

 

[iamfried]

If you have the tivo to go functionality, all of this becomes very easy to do. It allows you to move the fiels over to your computer. Then, if you go to the tivo site, you will see that they are helping to market the Sonic MyDVD software so that you can then burn the movies/tv shows/what ever it is you watch on tv over to a DVD which is viewable in any DVD player.
I would think that if the Tivo website is advertising this, it is anything but piracy to move it to the DVD.
It is what you do with it after you put it on a DVD that could make it piracy. If you are doing it so that you have a copy of a movie for your own personal collection, this is not piracy. I just made a DVD of a movie off of my tivo and feel 100% confident that I did absolutely nothing wrong.

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
I would get Tivo if I could rip stuff from it. But now... hellfire, if I record to vhs, I have them forever. But with Tivo.... eventually, I will have to start deleting stuff for new stuff. So, if I cannot save the old stuff to DVD before deleting it to record new stuff.. There is no point for me to have Tivo.

http://www.tivo.com/2.1.2.asp

Thanks.... but for $400-500 ... I think the b/f would.... hmmm... he would think it was a frivilous expenditure.

 

[Linflas]

The non DirecTV TIVO's don't have the save to VCR function? I just run mine into my PC using standard AV cables from the TIVO to save them to disk and cap them in DVD MPEG format.