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TiVo Show Downloads for MacOS
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Downloads begins encoding then fails #464

Closed Dial430 closed 2 years ago

Dial430 commented 3 years ago

com.cTiVo.cTiVo 2021-10-11--00-23-10-010.log

dballenger commented 2 years ago

I think I'm seeing something similar to this on Big Sur (I was still running Mojave until a few weeks ago when I noticed this behavior), the error file for encoding looks like: https://gist.github.com/dballenger/7bc210481a5055cb0cf3e7fcaefa6d67

mackworth commented 2 years ago

@dballenger that looks like a different problem. Rather than a failure of encoding, that's a failure during launch of encoding. It says " At least one output file must be specified". Which Format are you using, and if not a built-in one, can you post a screen shot of it (Edit>Formats>YourFormat)

mackworth commented 2 years ago

BTW, @Dial430 The failure you indicated is similar to others I've seen where the download is corrupted, and I have no fix for. One of these days, I hope to try a workaround I've read about that purposefully slows the download, which MAY avoid some problem in TiVo's encoding/encryption during download.

mackworth commented 2 years ago

Let me know if you're still having an issue. I haven't been able to replicate this problem, and the easiest test might be to run PyTiVo Desktop to see if their algorithm fixes your problem

Dial430 commented 2 years ago

Hi Hugh, I am following up on your previous offer to help. I have been using Tivo, successfully for a long time. That said, every so often, cTivo will fail to encode a program. Multiple attempts to download but fails to encode, other times it works well, no issues. I have attached my recent logs. Today, I had another fail, I was able to download the file, in .ts mode, the file is 9 GB. For some reason, cTivo is unable to encode the file? I tried PyTivo but could access my Tivo, see the file and try to download but the program would not download the file??

Any guidance you can provide would be appreciated. Regard, Fred Dial

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Let me know if you're still having an issue. I haven't been able to replicate this problem, and the easiest test might be to run PyTiVo Desktop to see if their algorithm fixes your problem

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mackworth commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately, GitHub strips off attachments from emails, so you need to go to the website to post the log. From your description, it’s probably a glitchy video, so not much I can do. Try using handbrake instead of the Default ffmpeg encoders.