![]() ![]() Then I found out about cTiVo.ĬTiVo is the best option of all for me. I can use this freeware to download my shows to my Mac. Most will be happy enough just having a copy of their shows, commercials and all, in iTunes, but you can go one step better and mark the commercials so they can be skipped. In my case, I just let cTiVo run overnight every couple of days to download, decrypt and encode all my shows I want to keep to my Mac. I then edit out all the commercials on the weekends via iMovie and move the finished files to my Plex library. It is a system that works for me and I couldn't do it without cTiVo. I'd love to shake the developer's hand and thank them profusely for helping me archive all my favorite shows. I used to use KMTTG over a year ago when it was almost the only game in town. The software that comes with Toast Titanium for working with Tivo was pathetically awful. I eventually came upon KMTTG and it took a while to figure it out and get the settings just right to work. ![]() Even then, it was a slow, laborious process. I had dabbled with iTivo but while the interface was much easier, functionally it was dead in the water for me. I was pleasantly surprised when I found out about cTivo and gave it a try. I knew that it was based on the iTivo project so I didn't have high expectations. I can't begin to think of how many software titles out there that have been renamed but weren't functionally updated.ĬTivo worked with a minimum of fuss on my old 2008 dual quad core Mac Pro and works even faster on my current laptop, a 2012 i7 Intel Macbook Pro. The only thing that slows cTivo down is that I'm grabbing my shows from my Tivo wirelessly. If I used a wire instead, I suspect the download of the show (the longest part of the process) would speed up considerably. It is stupid easy compared to what used to be available to Tivo owners who use Mac. There are a load of features hiding under the hood of cTivo that make it sing for anyone if they take the time to browse the wiki and play with it a little bit. It can convert the Tivo files into a wide range of different formats. You can have it mark commercials or even clip them out altogether if you're feeling more confident (I just have it mark them and I review them before clipping them out in Final Cut Pro X). The recordings I'm able to save from Tivo via cTivo are as good as the originals from what I see on my 1080p TV, so no complaints here. I'm always telling fellow Mac users with Tivos about cTivo and I'm amazed that there are so few that seem to be aware of it. In summary, cTivo takes the guesswork out of getting your favorite shows and movies off the Tivo and making them Mac-friendly for editing and/or archiving.
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