Kindle fire has became one of the most popular tablets since it released, the low price android tablet gives us big surprise due to the great performance.
One of the most striking features on Kindle Fire is multimedia. Kindle Fire is great for us to watch movies and TV shows. The TiVo brings the best entertainment from cable and the web together in one place, with one remote and one simple search across everything. TiVo opens the world’s largest video store in our living room with over 100,000 movies and shows. As the mobile devices are developing fast, we are not satisfied to watch TiVo at home.
Why not transfer your TiVo recordings to Kindle Fire? No matter where you are, whenever it is, just take out the Kindle Fire and enjoy your favorite TV programs or football matches freely! Nice idea, isn’t it? In the following guide I would like to share with you how to get your TiVo recordings ready for the Android Tablet Kindle Fire. In order to enjoy TiVo recordings on Kindle Fire, you got to transfer TiVo to your Mac and then convert the TiVo files to Kindle Fire compatible formats.
This article will show you how to play tivo on Kindle Fire:
1. Transfer TiVo recordings to Mac (or MacBook)
Once you’ve recorded your favorite shows on your TiVo box, you can transfer them to your Mac with certain software as long as your TiVo box is connected to your home network. Although the TiVo Desktop software for the Mac (supplied by TiVo) does not allow user to transfer TiVo recordings to Mac, there are other freeware can accomplish this task, like the TiVo Decode Manager.
- Install and Run the app, enter your TiVo’s IP address in the TiVo IP Address box.
- Next click the Prefs button in the lower-right corner. Fill in the Media Access Key. A list of shows on your TiVo will appear in the Now Playing list.
- Select the show and click Add Show To Queue. The selected show now appears in the Download Queue list.
- Click Download Location to select where you want to save it.
2. Convert TiVo Recordings to Kindle Fire MP4 on Mac
The app allows you to convert TiVo shows to MPEG-4 video. Of course you can play these TiVo shows with QuickTime Player.
To convert the recordings for Kindle Fire, you can use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac. The product is the best I have found at converting Tivo files and keeping the audio synced with the video. Other products have fallen down on the syncing. Once I finish playing with the various options to determine the best bitrates, Size and such for what I want, I plan to redo my entire video library with the TiVo Recordings to Kindle Fire Converter for Mac.
Follow the guide below to convert TiVo HD shows to Kindle Fire MP4 with least quality loss on Mac
- Load TiVo video to the Mac TiVo Kindle Converter
By clicking the Add button to browse to choose the TiVo videos for importing. Another way to import TiVo videos to Mac TiVo to Kindle Fire converter is to directly drag the TiVo files to the main interface of the program. And then, you are required to enter the access key of TiVo video for successfully importing. Just fill in the blank and click OK button, then the TiVo file will be imported to the program.
- Select the output format for output files.
Choose "Format > Android > Nook Color(*.mp4)"
Note: By Clicking Settings, you will open a "profile settings" window. As follows, you can adjust some parameters to get the video quality you want. But you should know, higher quality with bigger size, Please pay attention to the storage space of your kindle fire. - One click to start TiVo to Kindle Fire Conversion
you can click the convert button to start the conversion from Mac TiVo videos to Kindle Fire mp4 videos. The conversion is fast with system acceleration technology, and the video and audio quality has been kept for smoothly playing TV shows on Kindle Fire.
Tips:
Videos that recorded by TiVo are usually in large size, and it is not so convenient for you to play them on Kindle Fire. Pavtube Video Converter for Mac provides simple cutting and trimming function to help you do some simple editing so that you can play and enjoy TV shows on Kindle Fire flawlessly.