TiVo Feature Request: Play all programs in a group
6So I finally got a VCR+DVD Recorder combo in order to put those “Dora the Explorer” episodes onto DVD for the kids to watch while on a plane, and after getting everything all connected up, I am placed in a baffling situation.
You see, TiVo has this very nice “Save to VCR” capability, where you can hit record on your VCR (or DVD recorder) and the program will get a nice title sequence and play out to the recording device. TiVo also has this nice program grouping capability, so I can se that I have 18 Dora The Explorer episodes saved on the box. What I’d really like is a way to have the TiVo play all 18 of those episodes back-to-back without having to waste my entire Sunday babysitting the machine to see if it has finished each 30 minute episode. I’d really like to actually get out of the house, you see.
Anyone have any ideas or solutions?
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try tivo-to-go instead of dvd dave, you can select everything you want to transfer to your laptop and it’ll queue it up…
i do what i want overnight and its ready to go for my commute in the morning…
if you have the 802.11g wireless adapters connected to the tivo (and your laptop) the transfer usually takes less time than the original program…
your kids can still select and play whatever original episode they want – over and over
You’re transferring things to tape? Why not transfer to your computer and burn DVD’s?
If you have a Tivo Series 2, it’s network capable. Connect it to your home network then you can use Tivo To Go (http://www.tivo.com/4.9.4.1.asp) and you can move those recordings to any PC on the network. Then you can watch them right off the PC Hard Drive, no need for a burn to DVD. If you still want a DVD, then have the PC group and burn them using something like MyDVD from Sonic Solutions (http://snipurl.com/x4be).
If you don’t have a Series 2, but one of those DTV Tivo’s all bets are off. DTV has the network capability in the box, but for some reason (they don’t want to customer support calls is my guess) they don’t enable it.
Dan
MythTV has this function… you basically build playlists, and it will play shows back-to-back as you’d like. And since MythTV also has auto-commerical skipping, when you make the tape it won’t have any commercials either.
I have two tivo’s sitting in the corner after messing with MythTV.
Admittedly, it takes a LOT more time and effort, but what I’ve been doing is using TiVo Desktop to copy the video off the TiVo onto my PC. Then, I use some black magic to convert it to MPEG2, run it through a video editor to clip out all the commercials, then create a DVD menu of all the video and then burn it to a DVD for the kids.
So, I’ve got these nice DVD’s with on-screen menus, no commercials … but, it did take more time. Processing eight 30-minute episodes (4 hours of video reduced to about 2.5 hours worth of video after removing all the commercials) takes about 4 hours of labor to process and about another 2-3 hours to encode and burn the DVD.
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