There's no question that the we love TiVo around here, but that doesn't mean we're afraid to point out its faults. Currently one of our biggest gripes is that
TiVo doesn't always get HD and this isn't anymore true than with the TiVoCast feature. Thankfully that is about to change as TiVo Desktop 2.6 (Windows only, due in March '08) finally fills the missing pieces to make getting HD on your HD TiVo, drop dead simple. This update will work with any podcatcher software you have, -- you know like
iTunes Miro -- all you have to do is point TiVo Desktop to the directory where your HD content is downloaded and it will parse all the sub folders and create corresponding folders on your Now Playing List. And just about every video codec and resolution under the sun can be transcoded before it is automatically transferred to your
TiVo -- no word on what happens to AC3 audio, but we'd guess it gets converted to 2-channel. If this is all too complicated for you -- which we doubt -- you can also browse select podcasts just like you can
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posted Jan 7th 2008 5:56PM
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Great news though
What good is this? This stuff should just magically appear in my now playing list. I shouldn't have to manipulate anything other than my tivo.
This whole tivodesktop thing is junk anyway. Tivo should just look for network shares and select videos/music in it for streaming. I'm tired of fooling with a computer when this stuff should "just work."
Sincerely,
a sincere S3 owner
You can subscribe to a long list of videocasts from the TiVo directly. You only need to go to the PC to enter the details of a videocast not already listed. Which is probably better than typing in URLs from your TiVo remote, no?
After than there is nothing else to do, the video just shows up in Now Playing with no further work.
I beleive the way it will prolly work is you subscribe to the rss feed and the podcast/video will download to the folder you have it set to. The you have the tivo desktop software pointed to that video folder and it will go and automatically parse it and add it to your play list.
This way any RSS feed can be dumped to a folder.