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

delus10n0 delus10n0 at y...
Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:03:50 -0000


The US.

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "Jim Hauxwell" <james@d...> wrote:
> Are you in the UK or the US
> 
> Jim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delus10n0 [mailto:delus10n0@y...]
> Sent: 19 April 2002 21:27
> To: ExtractStream@y...
> Subject: [ExtractStream] Cannot properly split/extract video, no 
matter
> what method I try.. please help!
> 
> 
> 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!
> 
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