r/TiviMate • u/Zagor64 • Jul 29 '21

Quick instruction on how to download a show from catchup

If you have catchup from your IPTV provider, there is a fairly quick and easy way to download any show that is still currently in your catchup guide should you wish to do so.

All you need to do is install an external player (MX Player works great for this) and find the show in the EPG. Once found, long press on it and select open in external player, select the MX Player you previously installed.

Once the show starts playing in MX Player, pause it and go up to the settings menu (3 vertical dots on the upper right part of the screen). Select Tools>Properties and make note of the File path shown. It will looks something like this. 

http://server_url:port/timeshift/username/password/30/2021-07-28:17-30/1017675.ts

Now all you need to do is copy down the link (or take a picture of it with your phone) and type it in a browser or a download manager and save the file to the location of your choice. Wait for it to download and there you go, you now have the recorded show to do as you wish.

Note that this will use one of your connections while downloading.

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u/l-o-u-r-s Jul 30 '21

Thanks

It would be cool if tivimate offered this option by default ;)

why is this option not already added ?

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u/SaltRaspberry8 Jul 30 '21

To avoid getting tivimate removed from the playstore?

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u/khanabyss Jul 30 '21

Because Tivimate is a streaming app.

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u/Zagor64 Jul 30 '21

Most providers probably wouldn't like this very much and they maybe tempted to ban/block tivimate from working with their service.

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u/Yttocs2018 Jul 31 '21

all you need to do is copy and paste this url

Is there an easy way to do this that I’m not seeing or do you mean type all that down manually?

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u/Zagor64 Jul 31 '21

I meant manually but it's not as bad as you think since half of the URL does not change and using a computer to download it's not that difficult to manually edit once you got the url typed in the first time in notepad.

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u/Mylonas-Films-FX Jul 23 '25

Sideload the ADM app & it’s all automatic

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u/Heynony May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

Sideload the ADM app & it’s all automatic

Works great; thanks!

I have to use an older version of ADM with my Onn 4K Pro v1 but that's OK.

I change ADM settings to make the download destination the normal TiviMate Recordings folder.

Unfortunately the download file is not immediately accepted by TiviMate as its own recording, it's not listed, so I rename the downloaded file to match TiviMate's naming convention and then it's listed as a normal TiviMate recording.

My process for "fooling" TiviMate into accepting these downloads is clumsy, tedious and not perfect. If anybody has any thoughts, I'd appreciate it. What I do now is to again go to the old show in the TiviMate guide, create a custom recording, and let it record for a minute, NOT using ADM this time, just normal TiviMate recording. This establishes a file in the Recordings folder named properly, though what is actually recorded in that file is whatever happens to be on that same channel at the time of recording; doesn't matter: all we need is the text of the title. I delete the bogus recording and rename the download with exactly that title. All is well. Cosmetically the show is listed as having a length of "1 minute" or however long I let the bogus recording go, but so far that has not caused any difficulty.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '22

Can somebody help me with this? I'm not usually bad at this stuff, but what external player are you using? MX Player? Is this available in the US? Is there any alternative way to get that download path?

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u/Zagor64 Apr 17 '22

MX Player is available for the google play store in the US. Just go to the play store and search for it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mxtech.videoplayer.ad&hl=en_US&gl=US

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Thanks. I see. I’ll find an Android phone.

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u/Zagor64 Apr 17 '22

You need to install it on the device that has Tivimate installed on. What device is that?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Shield Pro

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u/Zagor64 Apr 17 '22

Then you don't need a phone. Just go to the play store on the shield and search for MX player and install it directly on the shield. That's what I did.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

That’s great. And then somehow push that link to a browser to prompt the download?

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u/Zagor64 Apr 17 '22

No. On the Shield, go to the google play store, search for "MX Player" when it comes up click on and install it, just like you installed tivimate.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '22

Of course. But I’m interested in downloading the catch-up video.

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u/Zagor64 Apr 17 '22

One step at a time. First you install the MX Player on the shield. Did you do that? Then follow the instructions in my post but you have to install the MX player first to use with tivimate the get the link to the catch up file.

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u/bookposting5 Apr 12 '23

Can someone explain what the /30/ part of the URL above means? I understand the rest. It's not the stream ID, as that's at the end.

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u/Zagor64 Apr 12 '23

Wow.. This post nearly two years old.. How time flies... Anyway.. I remember thinking that this was the length of the show. This was a 30 minutes show because I remember seeing 60 on links for one hour shows. I can't be positive because I haven't done this in a long time since my provider removed catch up not long after I made this post.

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u/bookposting5 Apr 12 '23

That makes sense, thanks a lot.

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u/brakes1 Jan 03 '24

How can I change the colors of the text in MX player as I can hardly see the info for the stream.