TIVO to DVD football games

[Roadkyng]

Christmas (aka Holiday) Greetings:

I have recorded several football games on a SA2 TIVO and want to archive them to DVD. I did a test of one game as follows:
The TIVO is connected to an Adaptec hardware mpeg2 encoder via component cables then to the computer via USB2.0. I used WinDVR3 to capture to my hard drive then used Screenblast MovieStudio 3.0 to cut out all the commercials. I then rendered the video in MPEG2 and it came out at almost 8Gb. The game was a bit over 3 hours long. Now I am stuck. I have a single layer drive so I am space limited. My questions are:

1. Is there an easier way?

2. How can I compress or fit the file to a single DVD?

3. Is the file size about right or did I do something wrong to casue it to be so large?

4. Should I be using different software?

Thanks

gavin

[lumis]

i do this with my dish network DVR for football games.

1) record live broadcast to DVR & dvd-rw (at lowest quality)

2) extract mpeg to hdd from dvd-rw

3) edit out commercials, determine length

4) re-record to dvd-rw at closest quality setting, skipipng comercials

5) extract dvd-rw removing commercials (there will still be bits, even with skipping them)

6) author to dvd.

here is what i use to accomplish this;

pioneer dvr-220s standalone dvd recorder, to record
tmpgenc mpeg editor, to extract mpeg from dvd-rw
womble mpeg-vcr, to edit mpegs
TDA, to author to dvd files
imgtool classic, to iso dvd files
dvd decrypter, to burn to dvd-r

[Roadkyng]

Lumis,
thanks for the reply. I am a bit confused as to your steps 3 to 5. When you state step 4 "re-record to dvd-rw at closest quality setting, skipping comercials" and then step 5 of "extract dvd-rw removing commercials (there will still be bits, even with skipping them)". It seems redundant. In step 3 you state you edit out the commercials.

Could you elaborate?

Thanks

gavin

[mbellot]

Christmas (aka Holiday) Greetings:

1. Is there an easier way?

Assuming you have an older S2 (not the newest "nightlight" model) you should be able to extract the video directly from the Tivo in any one of several ways.

Even if its the newest model with TivoToGo you can extract and burn DVDs, its just more restrictive.

Either way you'll need a USB to Ethernet adapter, check Tivo.com for supported models.


For answers to everything Tivo I'd suggest checking out these two forums.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/


The first has more general knowledge for Tivo beginners and I think talk about extraction (except for TivoToGo) is not allowed.

The second has much more information about general extraction (and hacking in lots of other ways too), but they tend to be a bit rough on newbs if its obvious that no attempt to find answers has been made.

[sacajaweeda]

I record them to DVD using a standalone recorder in HQ (1 hour) mode. One DVD per quarter.
Rip to HDD using DVDDecrypter in IFO mode - no file breaks.
Edit out commercials with MPEG-VCR.
Load them into DVD-Lab Pro. Allow DVD-Lab Pro to de-multiplex the streams. Remove AC3 audio streams.
Re-encode the AC3 audio streams from 384k to 128k using BeSweet.
Import the smaller AC3 audio streams into DVD-Lab Pro.
Author as usual. Usually end up with a title set around 7 or 8 GB in size.
Use DVD-Rebuilder to compress them down to fit on a DVD-5.
Burn to DVD with DVDDecrypter in ISO mode.

Most games are around 2:15 to 2:30 in length after editing out all the commercials and junk at halftime and look pretty good at full D1 resolution. Longer games, especially OT games, I check the option in DVD-Rebuilder to resize it to half D1.



HTH

[Denvers Dawgs]

If you have a home network setup already you can just use tivoToGo and transfer the football games to your PC then edit and burn. I have my Tivo hardwired to my router and can transfer shows in about an hour to computer.

[Roadkyng]

If you have a home network setup already you can just use tivoToGo and transfer the football games to your PC then edit and burn. I have my Tivo hardwired to my router and can transfer shows in about an hour to computer.

Unfortunately I have a stand alone unit. tivoToGo is proprietary to the Tivo service. I have DirecTV with Tivo.

I know i can hack the box and get all this functionality by I am not interested in going that deep.

[Denvers Dawgs]

Sorry about that just thought it was a standalone series 2 tivo box, not the direct tivo one. Can't help with that one.....sorry