Comments on: Roxio TiVoToGo Troubles Persist

By: fredric100

fredric100 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:15:46 +0000

There’s a lot of additional discussion of problems with TiVo to Go since the Fall update at

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=369019&highlight=windows

By: Pol Pot Pie

Pol Pot Pie — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:11:33 +0000

The Now Playing widget incorporates tivodecode

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:30:43 +0000

Yah, I’ve found TDM to be a bit flakey. It’s got potential but seems like development was abandoned shortly after release.

By: Sean Harding

Sean Harding — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:20:34 +0000

Just use tivodecode without TiVoDecodeManager. It works very well, and in my experience much more reliably and smoothly than TiVoDecodeManager.

By: Big John

Big John — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:15:02 +0000

I use TivoDecodeManager daily and I wish someone would continue development of it.

By: Pol Pot Pie

Pol Pot Pie — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:30:54 +0000

I also use the Now Playing widget and Visual Hub and it works fine.

By: Geoffrey Sperl

Geoffrey Sperl — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:46:31 +0000

I was one of the ones who continued to have trouble after the patches. I joined in the group that stated as much and nothing happened (the response was: “Uninstall Toast manually and re-install it”). So I finally threw up my hands, went out and bought a cheap Compaq, threw it onto my network (headless and running Remote Desktop), and installed TiVo Desktop Plus.

And it’s worked flawlessly.

By: Sean Harding

Sean Harding — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:33:36 +0000

I haven’t had any trouble just downloading shows from the web interface, using TiVoDecode (NOT TiVoDecode Manager) to decode them, and VisualHub to convert them to other formats. It’s a bit more work (and if the Roxio solution actually worked, I probably would have bought it long ago), but it works reliably and it’s cheaper to boot (could even be free if you skip VisualHub and use ffmpeg directly).