New discovery re: conversion problems....

[Michael Abbott]

So how are you getting the ShowList.tcl script to run consistantly, 
I get an error about half way though it's generation of the xml 
script.

Mike

--- In ExtractStream@y..., willieb9000@y... wrote:
> I am about to start looking at the streams to see if I can 
figure 
> out the codes, but I think I may have found something that no one 
has 
> commented on before (of course that doesn't mean no one knew it).
> 
> I have been using tivoapp to extract and tyconvert to convert 
> streams lately and I have been noticing that I have problems with 
> basically only NBC shows. 
> I have tracked it down and it is the NBC commercials for 
programs. 
> If you have ever watched a recorded nbc show and not skipped the 
> commercials, you'll notice when an commercial for an NBC show 
comes 
> on, Tivo puts a little bubble on the screen that says "Press 
thumbs 
> up to record." Well, this has to be coded into the stream to tell 
it 
> when to put this up on the screen. Every time any conversion 
program 
> meets one of these NBC commercials, it goes crazy and dies. My 
guess 
> is that that is where split stream was dying a lot too. 
> I am going to look at the streams and try to figure out where in 
> the code the "Place the logo on the screen" code is and maybe we 
can 
> tell these conversion programs to ignore it and keep going. 
> Anyway that is all I have found so far. Let me know if you are 
> interested and I'll keep everyone posted. 
> 
> Willie