Hi, Major.

Just bought ffmpegX and it works great...except that it's not able to convert DVDs to Tivo format in one go.

I just downloaded VisualHub (http://www.techspansion.com/) because I'm still searching for an easy way to convert. They have a preset for Tivo and it just works. They seem to add a concatenation step beforehand (see below).

Could you add a preset for DVD to Tivo that does the same? Thanks for listening.

Here is the output of their log, btw.

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'/Applications/VisualHub.app'/Contents/Resources/tccat -i '/Volumes/Peacock/Movies/WALMART/''VIDEO_TS' -T 1,-1 2> /dev/null | '''/Library/Application Support/Techspansion/'vh118ffmpeg -y -i - -t 120 -b 1914.88k -s 544x352 -padtop 64 -padbottom 64 -aspect 4:3 -r ntsc -threads 4 -vcodec mpeg2video -g 15 -qmin 5 -bf 2 -map 0.0 -async 50 -acodec mp2 -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128k -ar 48000 -map 0.1 -f vob '/Volumes/Peacock/Movies/WALMART/'/'VIDEO_TS'.temp.mpg 2>> /tmp/visualhub_time ; echo done > /tmp/visualhub_working
FFmpeg version SVN-r6213, Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
libavutil: 49.1.0, libavcodec: 51.26.0, libavformat: 51.6.0
builtec 7 2006 15:55:18, gcc: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367), i386
Input #0, mpeg, from 'pipe:':
Duration-NA
bitrate-5171

0.0,,dvd1e0,,,Video,mpeg2video,yuv420p,720,480,29. 97
0.1,,dvd80,,,Audio,ac3,48000,2,192
0.2,,dvd81,,,Audio,ac3,48000,2,192
Output #0, vob, to '/Volumes/SanRafael/Movies/WALMART//VIDEO_TS.temp.mpg':
0.0,,,,,Video,mpeg2video,yuv420p,544,480, q=5-31,29.97
0.1,,,,,Audio,mp2,48000,2,128
Stream mapping:
Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
frame= 44 q=1.3 size= 30kB time=1.4 bitrate= 179.6kbits/s
frame= 80 q=1.3 size= 72kB time=2.5 bitrate= 234.1kbits/s