TiVo Desktop 2.6 adds video transcoding, folder monitoring in March
By Richard Lawler 
posted January 7th 2008 4:59PM
posted January 7th 2008 4:59PM
It looks like this year's big announcement from TiVo is the new TiVo Desktop 2.6 software, with a few upgrades in connecting your favorite DVR and your PC. According to our good friend Dave Zatz, this latest version allows for folder monitoring on the PC, with automatic transcoding and transfer to a connected TiVo. You could use this to monitor video podcasts -- or those BitTorrent RSS feeds you didn't think we knew about -- and play them on your TV more easily than any device this side of an AppleTV. No word on what res's are supported, but expect to pony up $24.95 when this update comes in March, unless you've got TiVo Desktop Plus in which case its no extra cost.
No mention of the software for other then windows... of course. Would really love it for OSX.
I actually gave up on a Mac/TiVo video solution (TiVo Desktop for Mac is still sharing my music out) after Roxio completely flubbed the details from TiVo's fall 2007 update. I, amongst others, was left waiting for a month before we could have a decent TTG solution on the Mac again.
So, I threw up my hands in defeat, went and bought a Compaq with Vista and it's running as a TiVo server (headlessly) on my network. And that's all it does.
Check out pytivo. It's an open-source alternative to Some tinkering required, and it's not perfect, but it will run on anything that has python & ffmpeg (both of which are available for your mac).
http://pytivo.armooo.net/
http://tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=328459