Editing TiVo (section)

===Hacking===
Users have installed additional or larger hard drives in their TiVo boxes to increase their recording capacity. Others have designed and built [[Ethernet card]]s<ref>{{cite web|last1=Tridgell|first1=Andrew|title=tivo-ethernet isa_adapter|url=https://www.samba.org/~tridge/tivo-ethernet/|access-date=2 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006030438/http://www.samba.org/~tridge/tivo-ethernet/|archive-date=October 6, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a [[Web interface]] ([[Tivoweb|TiVoWeb]]), and figured out how to extract, insert and transfer video among their TiVo boxes. Other hacks include adding time to the start and end of recording intelligently<ref>{{cite web|last=Anderton|first=Stuart|title=Automatic soft padding running on the TiVo|url=http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=136658|access-date=December 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215201459/http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=136658|archive-date=December 15, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and sending daily e-mails of the TiVo's activity.

TiVo still uses the same encoding, however, for the media files (saved as .TiVo files). These are MPEG files encoded with the user's Media Access Key (MAK). However, software developers have written programs such as tivodecode and tivodecode Manager to strip the MAK from the file, allowing the user to watch or send the recordings to friends.