pyTiVoX (pyTiVo On The Mac With Ease)

Earlier today, I stumbled upon a new program for my Mac which pretty much makes my pyTiVo install guide obsolete.  The program is called pyTiVoX and it allows you to run pyTiVo on a Mac without having to go through all the hoops that I outlined in my install guide.

I’ve got it up and running [...]

How To Install pyTiVo On A Mac

I finally got around to installing pyTiVo on my MacBook Pro (running Leopard 10.5.5).  Unlike the Windows install, installing pyTiVo on a Mac isn’t all that easy.  The instructions on pyTiVo’s website were very helpful however, I thought I would publish the following instructions since I think they’re a more complete.  If I ever get [...]

Installing pyTiVo (Review To Follow)

I just finished installing pyTiVo on my Windows XP virtual machine (using VMware Fusion).  For those of you who don’t know, here’s a brief description of pyTiVo taken from the software’s official website:

pyTivo is both an HMO and GoBack server. Similar to TiVo Desktop pyTivo loads many standard video compression codecs and outputs mpeg2 video [...]

Creating Clips from TiVo Recordings

In this article I will explain the process I use to create and save edited clips from recordings made on my Series 3 TiVo using software on my OS X Macintosh and later transfer those clips back to the TiVo for viewing.  First of all I want to thank Alex for allowing me to guest [...]

How To Watch Almost Any Video Podcast On Your TiVo

TiVoCast is one of my most favorite capabilities that TiVo has to offer. That being said, one of the biggest limitations of TiVoCast is that you can only download and watch the shows that TiVo currently has to offer. As of today, there are forty-one shows that are available via the TiVoCast [...]

How To Enable TiVoGoBack On A Mac (Using VisualHub)

For some reason, TiVoGoBack isn’t enabled by default within the Mac version of TiVo Desktop . That being said, it’s not that hard to enable it so that your TiVo can playback videos that are stored on your Mac. The following set of screenshots will show you how to enable TiVoGoBack using the [...]