I stored all of my TiVo content on one of my Linux servers that ran Galleon, so naturally I needed a Linux solution. I loaded tivodecode, a snappy little utility that removes that troublesome TiVo encryption. I threw together this little script to automate it. Drop it in any directory that contains *.TiVo files and it will convert them to *.TiVo.mpg and delete the old .TiVo files. Be sure to change the XXXXXXXXX to whatever your TiVo Media Access Key is.

#!/bin/ksh

ls *.TiVo > tivofiles.txt

while read FILES

do

   echo Converting $FILES
   tivodecode --mak XXXXXXXXXX -o "$FILES.mpg" "$FILES"
   rm $FILES

done < tivofiles.txt