Hi everyone -

I'm looking for a a free program (one which doesn't put their web address in the middle of the video like CuCusoft's program) which will convert the shows i have from the TIVO on my PC to a format which DVDFAB will recognize so I can make a couple of DVDs.

http://www.dvd-ripping.biz/tivo-to-dvd.html

I did use the program (DirectShow Dump is a free utility to extract the content of .TiVo files as unprotected MPEGs) that is listed on this page.

I networked my Tivo to the PC - downloaded the Tivo desktop and transferred what shows I wanted to my PC - I then used the DirectShow program to extract the files as unprotected MPEGS. Now I guess I need one more step - but I hope that the program I need is free and with no advertisements in the shows I want to save to DVD.

Thanks for your help!

WinDVD Creator should be able to handle that. It came free on a notebook, and comes free with some burners also. It is slow as molasses. I'm sure there are others that are pure freeware, I just have never looked since I don't have a TiVo or a need to process MPEG-2 files except as the way they come on DVDs.

Well, I found one that will work - right on my PC - Nero Worked like a charm. Thanks for your reply.

That's great and I'm glad the free part of the solution worked out too. Almost every PC comes with something free that will do that nowadays. Have fun with it. How is the picture quality (compared to a DVD)?