"Rewind" function

Is there a button push sequence that will reset a recorded movie to
the beginning?
That is, the functionality of rewind on a VCR?

TIA

Ed

Sure. Just press the forward arrow (the right facing arrow) until you reach
the end of the recording and it will reset to the beginning.
If you've turned the forward arrow into a 30 second skip this is
impractical. In this case you'll need to fast forward thru the recording to
reset to the beginning.


"Jag Man" wrote in message
...
Is there a button push sequence that will reset a recorded movie to
the beginning?
That is, the functionality of rewind on a VCR?

TIA

Ed

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 00:19:28 +0000, Jag Man wrote:

Is there a button push sequence that will reset a recorded movie to the
beginning?
That is, the functionality of rewind on a VCR?

Push the Info button twice. First will take it to the end of the recording
session, again will take it to start of it. Pressing FF or rewind and then
the Info button will cause it to jump in increments of 15, 30, or 60
minutes depending on length of recording. BUT, I haven't used a tivo
remote in 3 years, and I don't recall what I have the Info button on my
remote programmed as. If the tivo remote has an info button, it's probably
the same, but.....

--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php
Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm

"Jag Man" wrote in message ...
Is there a button push sequence that will reset a recorded movie to
the beginning?
That is, the functionality of rewind on a VCR?


Rewind works the same on the DVR as on a VCR while in Play mode.
Depending on the length of the recording, the "advance" button will
jump back 30 minutes or 15 minutes with each press when in Rewind mode.

In article , Jag_Man653R-
says...
Is there a button push sequence that will reset a recorded movie to
the beginning?
That is, the functionality of rewind on a VCR?

TIA

Ed






The advance button under the FF button does this by default. Most
everyone turns on 30 second skip which takes over this button. Either FF
or RW and press the advance button. It will skip 15 to 30 minutes each
time you press it.

OK, I understand now. Thanks. I guess in the rush to reprogram the
Advance key to
Jump 30 sec forward I did not realize that I was losing the ability to
easily and quickly
get back to the beginning of a recorded session.

Now let me say what I really want to do. I recently got an MX-500
Learning universal remote
control. It already has a soft key for Jump 30 sec forward. Now I'd
like to have a soft
key to return to the beginning of a recorded session. So what I need
to do is reset the
TiVo Advance key back to its normal functionality, then teach the
MX-500 from this key,
then reset the TiVo Advance key back to do the Jump.

So, how do do I get the TiVo Advance key back to factory setting?

Ed

Jag Man wrote:
OK, I understand now. Thanks. I guess in the rush to reprogram the
Advance key to
Jump 30 sec forward I did not realize that I was losing the ability to
easily and quickly
get back to the beginning of a recorded session.

Now let me say what I really want to do. I recently got an MX-500
Learning universal remote
control. It already has a soft key for Jump 30 sec forward. Now I'd
like to have a soft
key to return to the beginning of a recorded session. So what I need
to do is reset the
TiVo Advance key back to its normal functionality, then teach the
MX-500 from this key,
then reset the TiVo Advance key back to do the Jump.

So, how do do I get the TiVo Advance key back to factory setting?

IIRC, the same way you got it to do the 30 second skip- it is a toggle
function.

"Jag Man" wrote in message ...
OK, I understand now. Thanks. I guess in the rush to reprogram the
Advance key to
Jump 30 sec forward I did not realize that I was losing the ability to
easily and quickly
get back to the beginning of a recorded session.

Now let me say what I really want to do. I recently got an MX-500
Learning universal remote
control. It already has a soft key for Jump 30 sec forward. Now I'd
like to have a soft
key to return to the beginning of a recorded session. So what I need
to do is reset the
TiVo Advance key back to its normal functionality, then teach the
MX-500 from this key,
then reset the TiVo Advance key back to do the Jump.

So, how do do I get the TiVo Advance key back to factory setting?


You can repeat the 30 sec enabling sequence to remove 30 sec skip.

But remember that enabling 30 sec skip alters the receiver and not
the remote. The remote will always send the "advance" IR code.
You can't "teach" a MX-500 alternate codes for the advance button,
since that button won't send more than one code.

A macro like this would work for "Jump to beginning"

Select
Play
Select
3
0
Select
[It might help to have a pause here]
Advance
Advance
[It might help to have a pause here]
Select
Play
Select
3
0
Select

That would turn off 30second skip, skip to the end of the recording, and
turn 30second skip back on.

Just leave all your other keys alone.

It wouldn't work to turn off the 30second skip toggle and teach your
MX-500 that signal, because the toggle is in the TiVo, not the remote. The
remote sends the same IR code when you press the "Advance" button, whether
the 30second skip toggle is on or off.


Lenroc, Advance still works if you are in FF or Reverse mode, right? In
which case a simpler macro would just be:

FF
Advance
Advance

I can't remember if that would leave you in FF mode, but if it does, you
just use:

FF
Advance
Advance
Play

instead.

Am I missing something? That would seem to be much simpler.

Randy S.

"Lenroc" wrote in message news:[email protected]
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:45:14 +0000, Jag Man wrote:

Now let me say what I really want to do. I recently got an MX-500
Learning universal remote control. It already has a soft key for Jump 30
sec forward. Now I'd like to have a soft key to return to the beginning
of a recorded session. So what I need to do is reset the TiVo Advance
key back to its normal functionality, then teach the MX-500 from this
key, then reset the TiVo Advance key back to do the Jump.

A macro like this would work for "Jump to beginning"

Select
Play
Select
3
0
Select
[It might help to have a pause here]
Advance
Advance
[It might help to have a pause here]
Select
Play
Select
3
0
Select

That would turn off 30second skip, skip to the end of the recording, and
turn 30second skip back on.

Just leave all your other keys alone.

It wouldn't work to turn off the 30second skip toggle and teach your
MX-500 that signal, because the toggle is in the TiVo, not the remote. The
remote sends the same IR code when you press the "Advance" button, whether
the 30second skip toggle is on or off.

You can't program a macro for Jump to beginning.
What happens when the macro is executed depends on the length of a recording
and where the current play position is in that recording.

Two advance presses won't always produce the same result, not even when 30 sec
skip is enabled for that button.