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(if anyone's still around...)
Every so often when I try using TiVo Transfer with my Mac, only part of the file will succesfully come across. To make up numbers: tvshow.TiVo might be 2.21 GB, but only 15 megabytes, or maybe 125, will come across. And this will happen with the same numbers if I cancel the transfer and try again. _sometimes_ I can pull the file over as an https download, but often that doesn't work, either. Currently, for example, I've got a tv program that's 13.58 GB. TiVo Transfer died at (more or less..) 25 megs. Using Firefox to download it I've gotten.. 10.7 GB, but it's stalled there. Anyone else run into this, and if so, any suggestions? Thanks Mac OSX 10.6.8 - Note that I've tried today's (and past ones..) transfer using two separate Macs (disconnecting first one when going to the second). The problem reproduces... Thanks again __________________________________________________ ___ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] |
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On 2/28/2015 10:38 PM, danny burstein wrote:
(if anyone's still around...) Every so often when I try using TiVo Transfer with my Mac, only part of the file will succesfully come across. - Note that I've tried today's (and past ones..) transfer using two separate Macs (disconnecting first one when going to the second). The problem reproduces... What about other shows? I had similar problem, but just with one show. Others were OK --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com |
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In bilz2765 writes:
On 2/28/2015 10:38 PM, danny burstein wrote: (if anyone's still around...) Every so often when I try using TiVo Transfer with my Mac, only part of the file will succesfully come across. What about other shows? I had similar problem, but just with one show. Others were OK very roughly it happens with one show out of 20 or so. ANd, natch, it's that program each week that I really, really, want to keep... - there are also occassionally some recordings that have a "do not transfer" "flag" on them. That's part fo the deal with some extra-cost programs from Amazon, etc. Thanks for any suggestions about the periodic glitch -- __________________________________________________ ___ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] |
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On 3/1/2015 8:22 AM, danny burstein wrote:
In bilz2765 writes: On 2/28/2015 10:38 PM, danny burstein wrote: (if anyone's still around...) Every so often when I try using TiVo Transfer with my Mac, only part of the file will succesfully come across. What about other shows? I had similar problem, but just with one show. Others were OK very roughly it happens with one show out of 20 or so. ANd, natch, it's that program each week that I really, really, want to keep... - there are also occassionally some recordings that have a "do not transfer" "flag" on them. That's part fo the deal with some extra-cost programs from Amazon, etc. Thanks for any suggestions about the periodic glitch Can you watch it on the Tivo? --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com |
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In bilz2765 writes:
Every so often when I try using TiVo Transfer with my Mac, only part of the file will succesfully come across. What about other shows? I had similar problem, but just with one show. Others were OK very roughly it happens with one show out of 20 or so. ANd, natch, it's that program each week that I really, really, want to keep... Thanks for any suggestions about the periodic glitch Can you watch it on the Tivo? Eyup. In fact, that's the way I copied over one progam I really, really, wanted to keep - I fed the TiVo stream to a VCR. (Which involved switching outputs from HDMI, etc...) Curiously, when I tried again on that show that show that hiccupped last week and which I had tried a half dozen different ways, including reboots... .... anyway, I gave it a final attempt last night and it worked. sigh thanks again to everyone still here. -- __________________________________________________ ___ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] |
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danny burstein writes:
In bilz2765 writes: Every so often when I try using TiVo Transfer with my Mac, only part of the file will succesfully come across. What about other shows? I had similar problem, but just with one show. Others were OK very roughly it happens with one show out of 20 or so. ANd, natch, it's that program each week that I really, really, want to keep... Thanks for any suggestions about the periodic glitch Can you watch it on the Tivo? Eyup. In fact, that's the way I copied over one progam I really, really, wanted to keep - I fed the TiVo stream to a VCR. (Which involved switching outputs from HDMI, etc...) Curiously, when I tried again on that show that show that hiccupped last week and which I had tried a half dozen different ways, including reboots... ... anyway, I gave it a final attempt last night and it worked. sigh thanks again to everyone still here. I see this sort of problem all the time in shows transferred to my iPad from my Roamio (and my previous Premiere). Either the transfer will fail in the middle of the show, or it will finish but playback from the iPad will fail at a fixed point in the show. TiVo says it must be a network problem, but my network works fine for everything else. If a show fails to download or playback fails, I can generally download the show again successfully, and if that fails I can almost always just stream the show to the iPad (albeit with delays for resync'ing when I skip ahead). Also transfers to the iPad often won't play back the last 30 to 60 seconds of a show, so if the content goes right to the end, I have to watch the last 30 seconds on the TiVo itself or make the show record for an extra minute or two. All very annoying -- and inconsistent, so hard to help TiVo debug. Martin |
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danny burstein writes: (if anyone's still around...) Every so often when I try using TiVo Transfer with my Mac, only part of the file will succesfully come across. Sorry, been semi-offline for a few days. This is annoyingly familiar, and I've found an unsatisfying answer by searching online. Apparently this happens when there is some sort of corruption or degradation in the stored content on the TiVo (signal glitch, power twitch when recording, who knows). The playback path works fine and/or recovers from it, but the file transfer path just quits. Once I found this explanation, I watched a truncated file to see where it ended. Then I looked at that part of the show on the TiVo. There was a tiny "wobble" in the playback. It was nothing I would have noticed while watching. I have not put any time into asking whether TiVo is fixing this issue, but I really wish they would. -- Drew Lawson | "But the senator, while insisting he was not | intoxicated, could not explain his nudity." |
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