How to copy recordings to PC

[boritz]

... Any suggestions ...

Quick web searching suggests that VLC does not play TiVo files (could be incorrect of course).

I used paid-for software VideoReDo TVSuite which supports TiVo files https://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm. I still use it to edit FetchTV FTA recordings. There is a Free Trial option that may be worth a go.

BTW downloading files via Chrome may loop endlessly unless manually paused just a few seconds before a loop is complete. Then refresh the Windows - File Explorer - Downloads folder (press F5) until the expected file size is shown. Then copy (not move) the file to another folder and rename the copy to whatever.tivo. Then Cancel the download - it will delete the Downloads file.

I don't know if other browsers have that problem. [EDIT: Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome browsers do have that looping problem when downloading FetchTV recordings. Cannot remember if this happened when downloading from TiVo - too long ago. Perhaps not because the transfer is controlled via the TiVo login. Somewhat ironically I use VLC to determine the URL of a FetchTV recording to paste into a browser to download. Unlike TiVo it does not have MAK-like encoding.]

[RLSA]

Thanks for replying Boritz

I had downloaded the files by using each of pytivo, Chrome and Firefox. In each case there was a discrepancy between the file sizes on TiVo and the PC but each method resulted in exactly the same reduction of file size after transfer to the PC. Surely pytivo should have delivered the correct result?

Can anyone please confirm that this change in file size should not occur? Is there something I'm doing wrong?

Regards