I’m sure that by posting these two screenshots, I’ll have cease and desists arriving in my inbox and suspicious black Ford’s cruising my street, but – oh well. I started out with the lovely Tivo2Go software and transferred my recordings from “AGENTSMITH” to my PC. I then used a nifty utility called DirectShowDump to (how clever) “dump” the

.tivo

files into standard MPEG-2 video files. Luckily, the Divx Create package (which I received free through some offer a while back) ships with a free trial of their MPEG-2 convertor. So, I filtered the

.mpg

files through there and boom! 75% reduction in file size with no visual or audible loss of quality.