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Originally Posted by JustinThyme
Greetings, I am regular at TivoCommunity and use Tivo'd video on my portable devices.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*Having owed 3 Windows CE based portables capable of video, I am familiar with how to do video conversion "the hard way".ﾃつ*ﾃつ*What I am interested in is advice/ confirmation of what the easiest/ most convenient way is for naive users.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*My difficulty is that I do not have a Zune right now so I can't confirm for myself.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*I have a Windows mobile 5 phone that plays video, and the Video iPod for playing kids shows in the car during their commute to school.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*
As some of you may know, Tivo provides a way to automatically move and convert videos onto portable devices.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*For example, I tell it to move anything from the series Barnie or Magic School Bus and convert it into H.264 320x240 suitable for playing on the iPod.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*In the morning, I add the folder where these conversions are deposited using iTunes, sync to iPod, and I am done.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*4 or five clicks that are exactly the same.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*I can do that even in the most groggy monday morning daze with 4 kids screaming.
In Zune's case, it appears that I can get it down to the same simplicity, but there is an inefficiency that I have to generate two transcodes.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*Tivo's software TivoToGo is instructed to convert to H.264 and add the files automatically to Windows Media Player library.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*Presumambly since the ZUne application picks up stuff in the WMP library, it will see the H.264 and convert to WMV when it is told to sync up.
First off, I don't know for sure that it will actually work this way.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*The documentation indicates it will, but heck sometimes the hardware doesn't read docs, or understand them the way my puny brain does.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*
Could someone with a Zune confirm Tivo interoperability?ﾃつ*ﾃつ*Does it sound right in theory from the Zune Software side?ﾃつ*ﾃつ*How about practical tests?ﾃつ*ﾃつ*If you know someone who has a Tivo set up with TTG plus, then it would be possible to check out.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*It can be downloaded from Tivo at  http://www.tivo.com/4.9.4.1.asp.ﾃつ*ﾃつ*
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Tivo episodes I have tested with my Zune converted and worked fine. I simply added them to my library (like you're doing) and Synced them.
Unfortunately the conversion process is a bit long, but it does work.
It won't be an instant process, but it *should* (has for me) work without a problem.
It would be easier to have the file in WMV format, but H. 264 is supported. :-D