diff --git a/tivomirror b/tivomirror
index 8f83304..7d5a051 100755
--- a/tivomirror
+++ b/tivomirror
@@ -323,13 +323,6 @@ def getAvail(dir):
 	return s.f_bsize * s.f_bavail
 
 
-def quit_process(pid):	
-	try:
-		os.kill(pid, signal.SIGQUIT)
-	except OSError:
-		pass
-
-
 class FdLogger(threading.Thread):
 	def __init__(self, logger, lvl, fd):
 		self.logger = logger
@@ -349,58 +342,8 @@ class FdLogger(threading.Thread):
 			self.logger.exception("")
 
 
-def waitForProcs(pids):
-	success = True
-	while len(pids) > 0:
-		(spid, sse) = os.wait()
-		pids.remove(spid)
-		if os.WIFSIGNALED(sse) \
-				or (os.WIFEXITED(sse) and os.WEXITSTATUS(sse) != 0):
-			if os.WIFSIGNALED(sse):
-				print "--- process %d was terminated by signal %d" % (spid, os.WTERMSIG(sse))
-			elif os.WIFEXITED(sse):
-				print "--- process %d exited with code %d" % (spid, os.WEXITSTATUS(sse))
-			else:
-				print "--- process %d terminated unsuccessfully" % spid
-			success = False
-			for pid in pids:
-				quit_process(pid)
-	if not success:
-		raise TivoException("error executing processes")
-
-
 @timeout(43200)
-def download_curl(item, mak, target):
-	global cookies
-	url = item.url
-	logger.info("--- downloading \"%s\"" % (url))
-	p_curl = subprocess.Popen(["curl", "--anyauth", "--fail", \
-			"--insecure", "--cookie", cookies, \
-			"--silent", "--show-error", \
-			"--user", "tivo:%s" % mak, "--url", url ], \
-		stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-	p_decode = subprocess.Popen([tivodecode, "--mak", mak, \
-		"--no-verify", "--out", target, "-"], stdin=p_curl.stdout,
-		stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
-	FdLogger(logger, logging.INFO, p_curl.stderr)
-	FdLogger(logger, logging.INFO, p_decode.stdout)
-	FdLogger(logger, logging.INFO, p_decode.stderr)
-	try:
-		waitForProcs([p_curl.pid, p_decode.pid])
-	except Exception, e:
-		try:
-			os.remove(target)
-		except OSError:
-			pass
-		raise e
-	if os.path.getsize(target) < 1024:
-		print "error transcoding file: too small"
-		os.remove(target)
-		raise TivoException("downloaded file is too small")
-
-
-@timeout(43200)
-def download_py(item, mak, target):
+def download_item(item, mak, target):
 	global session, proxies, headers
 	count = 0
 	start = time.time()
@@ -483,7 +426,7 @@ def download_decode(item, mak):
 	except OSError:
 		pass
 	try:
-		download_curl(item, mak, target)
+		download_item(item, mak, target)
 	except Exception, e:
 		exc_info = sys.exc_info()
 		try: