TV to DVD Help

[terryA]

I do not believe that this question violates the rules of the forums, if it does, I apologize.

I'm no stranger to video editing and such. I currently play the Tivo recording to my computer using a Hauppage 350 Video/tuner Card and accompanying software (with a captioning hack) to re-record the video then use VideoRedo to cut the commercials then DVD Lab Pro 2 to create menus and such, then Nero to record it to DVD. This has worked fine for years. The problem is that this is a slow process and not as good quality as the new version, if I can get it to work.


I've tried multiple times to get this to work but I just can't.

Anyone have any advise on how to get the video to play, Fast Forward, Rewind and retain captioning when played on DVD and/or which DVD Players should I be looking at to purchase?

I have 2 DirecTV Hughes SD-40 DVR's - I've upgraded the hard drives to 400gb with no problem and I even got the networking to work.

I now can MRV, copy Tivo files to my hard drive with TYserver. I can cut the commercials with VideoRedo, then use DVD LAB Pro 2 to create the menus, then rip it to DVD with 480x480 video size in Nero, all the while retaining the closed captioning.

When I play these DVD's either it won't fast forward/rewind without crashing, it won't display the captioning, or both. I've tried it on 5 different DVD players. The 2 I had already, and 3 that I've read reviews that said are good for ripped DVD's. I haven't been able to find current reviews for DVD Player compatibility with TIVO related DVD Ripping.

Also, I've tried converting the video to 720x480 with several programs before ripping. Two of them leave an aweful video quality, and one was fine. However, the captioning was stripped in all cases.

Anyone have any advise on how to get the video to play, Fast Forward, Rewind and retain captioning when played on DVD and/or which DVD Players should I be looking at to purchase?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

[Bjs]

Welcome terryA

Tivo files need to be converted over for dvd playback to start with , which is what you have been trying to accomplish .

Yes , they have no idea of the rubbish they broadcast ... 480x480 is garbage .

There's not much you can do about it apart from resize ... each program capable of such things have there own unique methods of performing this function ... some good ... some make you want to throw the pc out the window ... lol

Seeings how you can connect to the device , have a look at http://t2sami.com/t2samisite/default.aspx , handles CC and converts it to sami format .

Even if it cannot connect , it should be able to at least read the tivo file and grab the cc .

And here , someone gives a reasonable run down of whats required , which might help .

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?p=215246 .

Once CC is converted correctly to another suitable format for dvd authoring ... depending on program being used , there shouldn't be an issue with ff or rew , or subtitles .

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On a bit more digging : http://dvd-create.sourceforge.net/tystudio/documentation.shtml

[terryA]

Thanks for you advise. I will check into these options.

[terryA]

Thanks again that post, BJS. TSAMI works only with stand alone DVR's which I don't have and didn't really mention that I didn't have.

If I was using a stand alone unit, I could cheat (Which I found as a result of your post) and change the initial recording resolution so the captioning would actually remain in the stream. This MAY be something I consider doing. But, per the treads, it seems pretty iffy and the picture quality gets reduced. So, I'll wait to see more on this. More than likely, I'll wait until I'm forced to upgrade to HD.

Also, I'll still need to research the other options, but based on a quick review, it appears that these methods will take longer that my original method which is posted above, but we'll see.