O.K., can I do this?

[mobiusa]

I want to capture stuff that I have recorded on my Dish PVR 501 (Tivo wannabe). After capture, I wish to burn whatever I may capture to a DVD-R.

I was thinking about building a rig to do just that. Here's what I have on my mind:

athlon xp 1.4 ghz
256 mb crucial ddr
ATI AIW 7500
M-Audio Delta 410 (sound card)
DVD-R

etc, etc....

Anyway, those are the essentials. I understand that I can capture with just an AIW 7500. But I want the ability to capture Dolby Digital or at least Dolby Prologic. For those of you not familiar with the PVR 501, it has a TOSLINK output for DD or DTS (when available). I figured I could buy one of those TOSLINK to SPDIF convertor boxes to handle the TOSLINK output since the Delta 410 only has an RCA SPDIF input.

Does anyone think this will work hardware-wise?

If so, what would my best software options for capturing and encoding to record to DVD-R be?

Thanks,

Mobe

[mobiusa]

Anybody?

[tjdmobile]

That's how I work it with my Tivo - nearly identical specs to yours... Personally, I just prefer to record the audio in Prologic / II. I have a pretty great home theatre, but DTS and DD extraction is largely unnecessary. On my SW Ep. 1 DVD, I can't tell the difference on my 6 speaker system from DTS to Prologic II.

In case you don't know: Prologic is encoded in the standard stereo signal. Hint - to get the best Prologic encoding - use 224 KBPS for the audio encode.

[2000a]

this is exactly what I want to do. Which software do you use to capture video (MPEG2) and audio (DD 5.1)?

My sound card has audio in TOSLINK SPDIF ...


thanks