Connect PC to DVD Recorder?

[sweet_yus]

Hi i have just bought i philips dvdr75 and i was wondering is it possible to coonect my PC to the recorder? I mean yes i can connect so i can view the pc the recorder so i can play a divx file on the pc then record on the dvd recorder, but is there any software or anything out there which will allow me to record the data from the PC to the recorder? Also is there any macrovision codes out there for the Philips dvdr75 cs i just can not seem to find any!

[bugster]

If your PC has TV out you can connect it via that. Play your divx fullscreen and just hit record on the DVD recorder.

[donpedro]

If I understand corectly, than NO. You can not burn DATA from PC to DVD through DVD Recorder.

There is one unit and I didn't investigate it more.... I belive it is HP Writer that can work like Recorder....

[Gil T Pleasure]

It's called HP dc3000.

[bugster]

Hi i have just bought i philips dvdr75 and i was wondering is it possible to coonect my PC to the recorder? I mean yes i can connect so i can view the pc the recorder so i can play a divx file on the pc then record on the dvd recorder, but is there any software or anything out there which will allow me to record the data from the PC to the recorder? Also is there any macrovision codes out there for the Philips dvdr75 cs i just can not seem to find any!

According to the Philips website, you can connect your PC to the DVDr75 via firewire. If so you should be able to export your video as DV directly to the DVDr75.

I have just purchased one of these units but have not tried this yet.

[luvvbuzz]

i am looking to do this myself, i have the philips dvdr70 and i have a couple of divx films i want to put onto dvd. on the dvd70 you can connect video and audio input sources into the front connectors which are the cam 1 ports. i have done this with a separate standalone dvd player and recorded succesfully that way but i have yet to record direct from my pc to the dvd70. i may give it a go tonight so if i do i will let you know how it went. ps, i think the best thing to do when doing this is to use the programe " end it all " to ends all unecesary processes, including the firewall so that i dont get any pop up messages come up, that way the media player will stay playing full screen.....i hope.

[donpedro]

Guys... do not confuse DATA (like PC DVD Writers) with VIDEO (video signal .. not data video file).

[luvvbuzz]

sorry donpedro did i missunderstand what this thread is about? i apologize if i did.

[feenix]

No luvvbuzz I don't think you did (or at least myself and Bugster have as well!).

I record the occasional tv prog/movie/whatever from my PC to a VCR and it works fine. I can't imagine that a DVD recorder is any different in principal. If you have a decent TV out on your pc then it's as Bugster says

[donpedro]

sorry donpedro did i missunderstand what this thread is about? i apologize if i did.

I am not sure anymore what was original question about. I am just trying to make sure that we are clear that there is difference since I think that some people are confused.

[luvvbuzz]

ok i can confirm that i just played a divx movie from my computer into the scart socket at the back of my philips dvdr70 and recorded it perfectly. if that is what this thread was about then i would say the same would be possible to do on the dvdr75 recorder as mentioned in the first post.

[donpedro]

...will allow me to record the data from the PC to the recorder?

This is the part that confused me

[tdowning]

In summary. If the DVD Recorder has a firewire port:

look in device manager, If it is listed as an optical drive, you most likely could burn a data disk, (This is merely a supposition on my part)

If on the other hand it shows up as a multimetdia Input/output device, then likely you can only export DV1 uncompressed as a fully digital process.

If it has no firewire port you must go the analog route. you need either a video card with a TV out, or a scan converter, that will convert VGA/XGA/whatever to NTSC/PAL (depending on where you are) and an eighth inch Stereo Headphone jack to two RCA connector adapter for analog audio transmission, or depending on the cababilities of your sound card a digital SP/DIF or Toslink connection may be possible, (But make sure it works ans syncs up before you record.)

because the movies are in Divx, they will need to be reencoded at some point. playing them through a TV out converts them to analog, and the DVD Recorder will compress to MPEG2 or... convert the DIVX file to DV1 uncompressed AVI format, which means it will be 13GB/hour. and reencoding may take a while. I estimate that it shouldn't take more that twice the time it takes to watch the movie, to reencode on a defragmented drive. Real time transcoding may be possible going from one drive to another, but I don't think the programs that will export DV1 from your PC will accept anything but DV1 avi's, (they may take care of the reencoding in the "Rendering" process

[feenix]

Very detailed and well may work but...........what's the advantage of that over just recording what he is playing on his PC?

[tdowning]

The advantage of converting the Divx file to AVI is that when you export it to the DVD, you will not induce generational loss, as you would if you connected analog outputs to analog inputs, and went from digital, to analog and back. May get better audio sync too, I don't think it would get progressively worse, but only very high end audio/video apps will automatically take latency into acount. The size of the sound card's buffer, plus the time it takes to convert the analog signal to digital will cause the audio to fall behind the video.

and it's the only way to do it if you don't have TV out or scan converter.