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  1. Hi,

    New guy to the world of digital video.

    I have a Tivo and I just bought the Canopus ADVC-100. I would like to transfer my favorite programs to my computer to burn as DVDs.

    I don't know the first place to start. HAs anyojne done this before?

    Will someone please point me in the right direction?

    I don't understand how I will be able to operate the Tivo if it is hooked up to the Canopus ADVC-100 and then to the computer.

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

    B
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    Hello,
    You could hack the tivo to transfer the files straight to the computer. Of course that would void your warranty.

    You will be able to see all of your operations on the computer assuming your capture card works like mine. Just use your remote normally and watch it on the computer monitor.

    Your approach is just like dubbing a video tape using a vcr to the computer. You should not have any problems.

    Kevin
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    Originally Posted by kidsvideo
    Hi,

    New guy to the world of digital video.

    I have a Tivo and I just bought the Canopus ADVC-100. I would like to transfer my favorite programs to my computer to burn as DVDs.

    I don't know the first place to start. HAs anyojne done this before?

    Will someone please point me in the right direction?

    I don't understand how I will be able to operate the Tivo if it is hooked up to the Canopus ADVC-100 and then to the computer.

    Thanks for any help you can provide.

    B
    tivo output > to advc-100 input > to firewire 1394 input on computer.

    Then open up your capture program on computer, like say Pinnacle Studio 8, hit capture, select which HD your want to capture to, and title your show, and continue capture.

    Everything you capture should show up on your computer monitor. If the Tivo program is not showing up on computer monitor, look good at your connections and settings.
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  4. Like Hiptune says. I do it all the time.

    Hacking the Series 2 units to do digital extraction is not trivial, as it was with the Series 1 units. However, this fall, Tivo is releasing TivoToGo, a new capability which will permit digital transfer of programs from your Tivo to your computer's HD, including a special version of Sonic MyDVD that lets you burn the content to DVD (and perhaps, VCD or SVCD).

    TivoToGo will eliminate at least one (and probably more) transcoding steps, so you should get better quality output video. It's supposed to be "coming this fall".
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  5. Check out Dealdatabase for Tivo hacking. Digitizing and then reencoding takes way too long to do.

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  6. Thanks for the replies guys. I've got everything hooked up right yet I still can't see the video over the computer.

    Amphion,

    "Check out Dealdatabase for Tivo hacking. Digitizing and then reencoding takes way too long to do. "

    Could you elaborate a little more? What is dealdatabase?

    Is what I'm trying to do a major pain the butt? It seems to be. I never knew so much was involved with digital video. I just want to put some home movies and some TV shows on DVD but it seems one must be a Hollywood professional just to do that.

    The money for a PVR DVD burner combo is looking cheaper and cheaper compared to this stuff.
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    Originally Posted by kidsvideo
    Thanks for the replies guys. I've got everything hooked up right yet I still can't see the video over the computer.
    Why can't you? Hook up your TV to the tivo output (watch it on TV) and make sure there is video to be captured. That should have been an easy one to think of. If it plays on the TV, you know its coming into the advc.

    So check your advc settings, another easy one. If they are fine, you know its the computer capture program, or the connection to the computer. Make sure you have that silver button on the ADVC set right. Click it back a few times while running the tivo (or vcr) playing into it.

    If you still can't figure it out, pull the tivo out of the connections and hook up a simple VCR. Get it rolling with VCR to computer. If you can't get VCR going into computer, check capture settings, make sure you have DV - IN on capture settings.

    If all this seems too complex, bail out, and sell yopur ADVC-100. If you bought it many months ago, advertise the marcrovision crack included in the older versions, and you should be able to get 225.00 for it no problem.

    Then go buy a DVD recorder from panasonic or jvc.

    This capture part is the easiest part of doing DVDs on a PC. From here it get really complex, stuff like encoding, bit rates, sound (ac3, pcm, or mpg), authoring, and burning apps.

    So if you can't get a signal into your computer with 2 tries, the rest of the process is going to be brutal and painful, time consuming, frustrating, and can get expensive.

    Give it one more try, and think about signal flow, find out were the break is in the flow. This is the easy part.

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  8. Originally Posted by kidsvideo
    "Check out Dealdatabase for Tivo hacking. Digitizing and then reencoding takes way too long to do. "

    Could you elaborate a little more? What is dealdatabase?
    http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/

    Good luck.
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  9. Sorry about lack of info. I wasn't sure what the policy was for websites. I had to google to figure it out.

    Dealdatabase now offers the "Sleeper scripts" to install/upgrade a hard drive and network the Tivo to a pc so you can transfer the data vs digitizing it. The tivo records in a .ty format which can be multiplexed out to dvd or svcd quality. I have a DirecTV w/Tivo and the files are SVCD quality by default.

    I would say about 10min or less to transfer a 1:40 - 2:00 show. Then re-encode with TMPGEnc.

    Much quicker.

    Amphion
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