TiVO - Is it possible....

[TDUBB]

I was wandering since you can store movies or shows onto the hard drive. Is it possible to connect TiVO to your computer. Then transfer the show or movie you recorded to you computer and burn it onto a DVD or CD burner?

[ctvideo]

Why not hook it up like you would a vcr.

[House de Kris]

There is an add-on called TiVO-Net. Then you can add it to your home network. The TiVO runs Linux inside. Then you can just transfer the MPEG file off the internal hard disc to your computer. From there is gets a little tricky. This is a unique TiVO flavor of MPEG. I've got a buddy at work who is battling daily with sync issues. No success yet. If anyone has experience, please post it here.

In the end, ctvideo's suggestion is a good one.

[The village idiot]

I looked into the same thing. I decided tht it was ALOT of work to accomplish the task, and did not make sense to pursue it. Now, if you could find one of the MacroShaft driven boxes.....

[thehire]

I found a tool that makes extracting audio/video quite easy once you've got the tivonet installed.

I get a .m2a and .m2v file directly from the tool. I put them directly into TMPEG without any offsets and I have absolutely no sync issues at all. My only problem is that something happens to the audio quality after using TMPEG. It sounds fine in .m2a format. I convert it to .wav and it sounds fine. But after being combined by TMPEG into a single .mpg file with the video, the audio gets distorted some on the louder parts - like if you play music too loud on your stereo and your speakers can't keep up.

I've tried encoding to MPEG2 and MPEG1 (SVCD and VCD) to no avail. I've also tried normalizing the .wav file both up and down before encoding. There's a bunch of links from the site I got my TiVo info from that I haven't had a chance to go through yet. Anybody have any ideas off the top of their head?

Here's the site I used for info on getting TiVo a/v:
http://themurrays.homeip.net/downloads/tivo/tivo.html
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[kwag]

Hi thehire,

Try muxing your audio/video with BBMpeg. Not with TMPEG.

-kwag

[thehire]

Found the problem. TiVo records audio at 32 kHz. VCD/SVCD wants 44.1 kHz. Use CoolEdit or Goldwave to upsample to 44.1 kHz and then TMPEG to combine audio and video and everything works out great.

[thehire]

Is BBMpeg better than TMPEG? Any reason to switch if TMPEG works for me?

[kwag]

Is BBMpeg better than TMPEG? Any reason to switch if TMPEG works for me?

BBMpeg is a better muxer than TMPEG. But that's about it. It's no match to TMPEG as an encoder.

-kwag

[thehire]

Thanks for the info about BBMpeg.

The problem I'm running into now is that TMPEG won't open some of the .m2v files. It locks up trying to open the ones it fails on. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason as to which ones will work and which ones won't.

At one point, I read something about a program that created a very small .d2v file that TMPEG could deal with, but I can't seem to find it again. Sound familiar to anybody?

Thanks.

[kwag]

DVD2AVI

-kwag