How to open and play TiVo shows in Windows Media Player

Summary: The article shows you an easy workaround for playing TiVo files in Windows Media Player by converting TiVo to WMV for WMP on Windows.



TiVo is a popular home setup box for recording favorite TV shows(like the 2014 Word Cup recordings) for later playback. And you can transfer the TV recordings to your personal computer by using the TiVo Desktop Software application. The only problem is that the output TV showsin .TiVo format is always not supported by popular video players like Windows Media Player. If you have a painful experience when playing TiVo in Windows Media Player, find out the best solution from this article.

Having a search on Google and find many people have the same problem. Something exciting, some guys have shared their solutions to solve the issue. The basic reason why you can not add TiVo video files to Windows Media Player is that WMP still can’t recognize TiVo format. To view TiVo shows in Windows Media Player smoothly, you simply need a TiVo Video Converter to convert TiVo to Windows Media Player friendly format. The following paragraphs are all about how to convert TiVo to WMP(12) step by step.

To convert and add videos in .TiVo to Windows Media Player, this user-friendly and professional utility -Brorsoft Video Converter is the best program I can recommend here. It supports you to convert TiVo to WMV for Windows Media Player without hassle. The main features of this TiVo converter are high conversion speed with zero quality loss and supporting to convert from and to more than 70 formats like MP4, AVI, FLV, WMV, MKV, MOV, MPG, etc. Plus, it also provides an access to touch up TiVo videos, which including trimming, cropping, appending artistic effects and more.

How to Convert and Add TiVo files to Windows Media Player

Step 1- Add TiVo files: Simply drag-and-drop your .tivo file to the main window of this program or click "Add" icon to load your .tivo video. You can add multiple files at a time an convert them in batch. If necessary, choose the "Merge into one file" option to join several video clips into one file.



Tip: When first loading, Brorsoft TiVo Converter will ask you to input your Media Access Key. Simply press “Option” button and switch to “TiVo” tab to enter your Media Access Key, and click “OK” to confirm.



Step 2- Select Windows Media Player supported format: Click the Format menu, select Windows Media Player friendly format as your output video format. There, you can take WMV as your output video format. If you prefer high definition videos, move your mouse pointer to "HD Video" and then choose HD WMV.



Step 3 - Start TiVo to Windows Media Player conversion: Simply click the "Convert" button to start encoding TiVo to WMV, everything else will be automated. If you have added quite a bunch of video files, it would take some time to convert. In such case, you can click Option and tick the box “Shut down the computer after conversion”.

After the conversion, click “Open” to locate the result videos and then you can import the converted files to Windows Media Player for playing without any limits.

Additional Tips:

This powerful TiVo to Windows Media Player Converter not only can transcode TiVo recordings, it also allows you to change any video, audio format like AVI, MOV, WMV, MKV, VOB, FLV, MTS, XAVC, MP3, WAV, M4A, etc to another format you want with the best quality.

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