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Posted by Dom Robinson on 05/30/06 21:05
In article <bf4p72htjrlf5e0ue6btn478n70kdosplb@4ax.com>, {$usenet-spamdump$}
@mrtickle.demon.co.uk says...
> In <ccbo72hsq76h9278mnhc9o7phfj40a3gqp@4ax.com>, Ed Chilada
> <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
> >On 30 May 2006 04:22:15 -0700, "DVDfever Dom" <google@dvdfever.co.uk>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>To save problems like this happening, I got a 400Gb Seagate USB hard
> >>drive and connect that via firewire to my PC. That way, every time I
> >>record something I want to keep I archive it to DVD and convert that to
> >>an .mpg file on the hard drive (the latter is dead easy with a program
> >>like Mpeg Video Wizard) and I do that before I delete it from my TiVo.
> >
> >How do you get the video off the Tivo? I've done this myself after
> >fitting a turbonet card (or whatever it's called), and then being able
> >to get .ty files from the Tivo over FTP.
>
> Use TyTool (http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47025 and
> http://www.tytool.com/tytemplates/FAQ/default.aspx). It gets the files
> off faster than FTP, lets you do frame-accurate editing and converts the
> audio to 48kHz for DVD *without* re-encoding the video, creates a DVD
> fileset complete with a menu and then all you have to do is burn the
> fileset as a DVD-Video. Be prepared to read a lot of FAQs and go up a
> learning curve; the quality of the results are worth it. HTH
>
One point to note about Mpeg Video Wizard, when getting a DVD-format mpeg out
of the .vob files, it doesn't convert them either, they just pass-through
quite quickly.
I discovered it shortly after registering TMPGEnc. D'oh :)
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