How to convert TiVo files to other media formats  like MP4, AVI, WMV, FLV, etc?

I often record some  wonderful parts of TV shows while watching them with my TiVo HD DVR. I guess  you guys may do the same thing as I do. Recording is easy, however playing  these TiVo files with computer media players, or portable devices, or some  other gadgets is difficult. Since TiVo files are saved by digital video  recorders in their proprietary format with copyright protection, it's  technically impossible to play recorded TV programs on other players without  format conversion. To make these files possible for playback on other media  players or devices, I often use Pavtube Video Converter to do  conversion job. Because of its beautiful performance, especially for it does  not let my video and audio go in separate ways, I’d like to share its detailed  instruction here, hope it can definitely help you guys who are having this requirement.

First of all,  download and install Pavtube Video  Converter.

Step 1: Import TiVo files

Once you run  this program, you will see the main interface as below. You are allowed to  click “Add” button to load TiVo files into this utility.

Step 2: Select output format and set save path

Click the  drop-down list of “Format” to select an output format according to your end use  of the output files: add to iPhone for playback, you can select MP4 or MOV;  import to BlackBerry for entertainment, you can choose AVI, WMV, or MP4; insert  to PPT for presentation, you can select WMV or MPG; upload to your personal  blogs or video-sharing website, you can select FLV, etc. All in all, you can  choose whatever format as you like. Here I choose the .mp4 format for my PS3 as  an example.

Meanwhile, you  can click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the  output files. If you want to combine all the TiVo files you added into this  program to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

If you want to  adjust the audio and video parameters of your TiVo files, you can click “Settings”  button to do it. The following pop-up window allows you to change codec, the  figures of bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. so that you can do advanced  settings according to your own requirements. Generally speaking, the larger  figures generate larger file size but better quality; the smaller values  produce smaller file size but inferior image quality. If you are not good at  this step, you can totally skip it.

Step 4: Convert

As soon as the  above mentioned steps are finished, you can click “Convert” button to start  conversion, and the output files can be found via click “Open” button after  conversion task is done.

Well, done,  hope this helps.