Posted by Ed Chilada on 05/30/06 21:17

On Tue, 30 May 2006 19:51:06 +0100, Mike Henry
<{$usenet-spamdump$}@mrtickle.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>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

Cool, cheers. I'll have a play with that.

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