Cannot properly split/extract video, no matter what method I try.. please help!

[shandrakor]

You may be facing the same problem that plagues me. The answer is 
going to be finding a copy of mfs_export, and using that instead of 
sendstream. 

Hope that works for ya...
~evilshandie

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "delus10n0" <delus10n0@y...> wrote:
> I'm not a newbie at this, but I seem to be having nothing but 
> problems. TivoApp doesn't work properly for me (bombs out halfway 
> through most streams), and I have followed the directions in this 
> method:
> 
> http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/tivo/index.cfm
> 
> And it works, but when I do a splitstream/zss on the TYstream, i 
end 
> up with the "Bad" file containing over half the stream! For example:
> 
> smallville1.ty (original TyStream) - 2.6 gigs
> smallville1.m2v (converted mpeg2 video) - 721 megs
> smallville1.m2a (converted mpeg2 audio) - 23 megs
> bad-smallville1.ty ("bad" tystream frames) - 1.9 gigs
> 
> It doesn't just happen with this particular TyStream, but with any 
I 
> try and extract. My TiVO is recording in "BEST" quality, and VBR 
> ("Save Disk Space") is off. I am stumped, and cannot figure out for 
> the life of me how anyone else out there is able to do this :) My 
> TiVO software is still at 2.5 (hasn't jumped to 3.0 yet)
> 
> Does anyone have any advice or ideas to help me out? I'd really 
> appreciate it. Thanks in advance!