{"id":126,"date":"2006-12-08T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T18:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.222\/~wkblogco\/?p=126"},"modified":"2008-04-11T15:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:43:51","slug":"tivotogo-alike-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2006\/12\/tivotogo-alike-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"TiVoToGo-alike on the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened &#8211; and hackers did it before TiVo. Mac users can download shows from their TiVo and play them on their Macs. It takes a little more effort, but it&#8217;s really not too bad. And, judging by the work already done to make it easier, it&#8217;ll only get easier still.<\/p>\n<p>To start, you need the <a href=\"http:\/\/thebenesch.com\/tdm\"><\/a>TiVo decode software. This links to your TiVo (you&#8217;ll need your media access key) and pulls down the files, and decodes them. It&#8217;s one-at-a-time, but in my experience, it was pretty fast.<\/p>\n<p>Then, you need a way to play the file. QuickTime and iTunes won&#8217;t do it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\/vlc\/download-macosx.html\">VLC<\/a> will. And it works pretty well also.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re definitely wondering if this will last &#8211; so if you want these apps, get them while you (easily) can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it finally happened &#8211; and hackers did it before TiVo. Mac users can download shows from their TiVo and play them on their Macs. It takes a little more effort, but it&#8217;s really not too bad. And, judging by the work already done to make it easier, it&#8217;ll only get easier still. To start, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}