TiVo announced a while back that I'd be able to take my TiVoed programs "to go". What does that mean? Not much, apparently. I only have 1 TiVo, so I can't transfer between them. I don't have a laptop, so I guess I can use the desktop software to watch TiVo on my PC, but that's not going very far. I don't wish to burn things on DVD enough to purchase their partner's DVD burn kit. I really just want to download the video to my PSP or Yaty's iPod.

Enter DirectShow Dump:

DirectShow Dump is a debugging App that allows you to extract (into a file) what the output of a DirectShow filter is. It is easy to use, employs asynchronous I/O for optimal performance and can batch-process files.

[ DirectShow Dump ]

Since the TiVo series 2 can copy video to my PC and store it as a modified MPEG-2 file, with some sort of DRM encryption, but allow for playback through WindowsMedia 10 and "DirectShow", it wasn't too difficult to pipe that to an unencrypted file (not too difficult for me at least... ;)). Then I sync that file via my PSP Media Manager, which I purchased before realizing that PSP Video 9 existed, and voilà! I truly have TiVo To Go!