Best iPad Video Converter - convert TiVo HD shows for iPad on Mac

According to Apple, iPad gives up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music. By any means, it is a great portable video player. So why not transfer you TiVo recordings to iPad? No matter where you are, whenever it is, just take out the iPad and enjoy your favorite TV programs or football matches freely! Nice idea, isn’t it? In the following guide I would like to share with you how to get your TiVo recordings ready for iPad (iPad Wi-Fi +3G). In order to enjoy TiVo recordings on iPad, you got to transfer TiVo to your Mac and then convert the TiVo files to iPad compatible formats.

1. Transfer TiVo recordings to Mac (or MacBook)

Once you’ve recorded your favorite shows on your TiVo box, you can transfer them to your Mac with certain software as long as your TiVo box is connected to your home network. Although the TiVo Desktop software for the Mac (supplied by TiVo) does not allow user to transfer TiVo recordings to Mac, there are other freeware can accomplish this task, like the TiVoDecode Manager. Run the app, enter your TiVo's IP address in the TiVo IP Address box. Next click the Prefs button in the lower-right corner. Fill in the Media Access Key.  A list of shows on your TiVo will appear in the Now Playing list. Select the show and click Add Show To Queue. The selected show now appears in the Download Queue list. Click Download Location to select where you want to save it. The app allows you to convert TiVo shows to MPEG-4 video for iPod. Of course you can play these TiVo shows with QuickTime Player. To convert the recordings for iPad, you can use Pavtube iPad Video Converter for Mac.

2. Convert TiVo recordings to to iPad compatible formats.
There are too many converting tools on market, yet few do convert TiVo files. A recommended one is Pavtube TiVo Converter for Mac, which converts TiVo files as well as HD footages, Flash videos, Matroska container format, tec.

Before converting TiVo files, let’s take a look at the iPad-supported video formats:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, MacM stereo audio in .avi file format.
Now please refer to the converting procedures below:

Step 1. Input Media Access Key.
Launch Pavtube Video Converter, Click on the "Option" button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media Access Key. Click "OK" to confirm.

Step 2: Import TiVo files.
Now click "Add" to import all .tivo files to Pavtube Video Converter.

Step 2: Select an output format for iPad, iPad 3G, or iPad Wi-Fi+3G
Click on the pull down menu of "Format" and then tap "iPad", after that, you will see three options optimized for iPad showing as below, including "iPad HD Video (*.mp4)", "iPad Video H.264 (*.MP4)", "iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)". You can select any one of them according to your own needs.

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters
You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup window to optimize the output file quality. Following are the recommended settings to get best playback quality.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Afterwards, connect your iPad to your Mac, and then sync the videos to iPad via iTunes.

Provided that you prefer using PC to Mac, Pavtube iPad Video Converter is a better choice for you to convert TiVo recordings to iPad.

The speed and quality was fine for my purposes.

 

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How to convert AVI/DivX/XviD to iPad with iPad Converter?

So you just have loads of AVI movies downloaded from the  internet or captured by a camera, or came from somewhere else, and wanna watch  them on your iPad or iPad 3G.  As we all know, Apple’s products refuse giving perfect supports for AVI files,  so if you want to watch AVI, DivX, and XviD videos on the magical iPad, it is  essential to convert AVI, DivX, XviD to iPad with a practical iPad Converter.  In the purpose of giving a solution for those people who have AVI, DivX, and  XviD files, this tutorial will detail you a step-by-step instruction on how to  convert AVI, DivX, XviD to iPad with Pavtube iPad Converter.

Step-by-step instruction:  How to convert AVI, DivX, XviD to iPad with iPad Converter

Step 1: Free download  iPad video converter, install and launch it
Run this video to iPad converter, and when the following  main interface pops up, click "Add Video" button to load your AVI, DivX, and  XviD files to it. This iPad video converter supports batch conversion, so you  are allowed to add multiple AVI files to convert at a time.

Other than that, if you wanna combine several files into a  single file for playback on your iPad/iPad 3G without any intervals, you can tick off the  checkbox "Merge into one file" to join your checked AVI files.

Step 2：Select an output format for iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G
Click on the pull down menu at the opposite side of "Format",  and then tap on "iPad" option, after that, you will see the following window,  on which it offers 4 formats optimized for iPad. You are free to choose anyone  of them on the basis of your own requirements. I select "iPad Video H.264  (*.mp4)" for instance.

Step 3: Optimize audio  and video settings
Click "Settings" button, then the interface as below will  show up, on which you are permitted to adjust settings like codec name, aspect  ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel. For example, if you  prefer 720P video to 768*576, then you can set the size at 1280*720 instead of  768*576 to meet your needs. Please notice that the default settings provided by  the iPad Converter are capable of producing you a quite well file quality while playing back on  your iPad, so if you are not professional in adjusting audio and video  parameters, we suggest you’d better use the default settings, or the incorrect  adjustment may cause you jumpy video or audio and video out of sync issues.

Additional info you may need if you would like to change  the above mentioned audio and video settings when converting AVI, DivX, XviD to  iPad with iPad video converter.
iPad supported video  formats:
H.264 video up to 720p,  30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps  per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5  Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio  up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps,  1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in  .avi file format.
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Step 4: Convert AVI,  DivX, XviD to iPad with iPad Converter
Click "Convert" button to start converting AVI, DivX, XviD  to iPad friendly format. This iPad  video converter will complete conversion at super high speed with perfect file quality,  which will ensure audio and video matching very well and won’t bring you audio  and video out of sync issues. Once finished, you can click "Open" button to get  the result files for syncing to your iPad with iTunes.

 

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