TiVo to DVD?

[vetski179]

Forgive me if this topic has been discussed. I did not find any related topics searching this site. A friend would like me to make DVD's for him from movies capured to his TiVo. I'm assuming the movies captured to a TiVo device are compressed a good deal, as he claims the machine has a 40 G hard drive, yet it supposedly will store up to 35 hours of programs. Any info will be appreciated.

[G-man]

The simplest way to do this is to just treat the Tivo as a VCR. There is an option on the TIVO to save to a VCR. So if you have a method for capturing from your VCR, you can capture from a TIVO.

I have a Directv Tivo which I capture from via an analog passthru to a DV video-camera; encode to Mepg-2 via TMPGEnc/Plus and author via Ulead DVD-MF. I can get almost 3 1/2 ours (at 352x480) and the resulting DVD quality is excellent.

[old7]

There is another forum that deals with Tivo video extraction. It may be more than you want, or it might be just what you are looking for. I have been extracting from my DirecTivo for almost 6 months and have burned many DVDs. Take a look.

http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum

Old7

[vetski179]

Thanks for your replies. I will take a look at his machine and go from there. I have an editting VCR that has a 1394 port, so maybe I can input his TiVo to the VCR, and download from VCR to my harddrive. Then, use my TMPGEnc to encode to DVD and burn. It'll be a fun experiment! Thanks again-