Audio troubles Extracting....
anddmx2001
anddmx2001 at y...
Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:40:13 -0000
Roger,
Thank-you, Thank-you, Thank-you. :)
I have to admit... I saw your webpage long before I posted here in
the forum, and saw the steps you were taking to extract the video. I
read through your procedure, and thought, Why bother with using
NetCat and sendstream when I can just have the TivoApp do it for me?
Why the additional headache? I can't see doing that additional work...
Well, they say hindsight is 20/20. The reason you use Sendstream is
because it will reliably take a .ty stream off the box! Something I
had difficulties doing with TivoApp, or more specifically,
ExtractStream.
First, the .ty flies off the Tivo. I was shocked to see how fast it
came off. Not only that, once they did make it to my windows pc,
splitstream didn't complain.
Thanks for writing a great step-by-step on this.... Any anyone that
is having problems with extraction, I would suggest trying Roger's
procedure.
Thanks again for your help,
Anddmx
--- In ExtractStream@y..., Roger Merchberger <zmerch7@y...> wrote:
> --- anddmx2001 <anddmx2001@y...> wrote:
> > Hello All,
>
> How-doo!
>
> > I have a question for you guys. I'm having problems with audio
> > distortion (pops) when I attempt an extraction, and curious if
> > anyone
> > has run into this before.
> >
> > Some info:
> > -Phillips 30hour Standalone Unit
> > -Latest version of the Tivo software
> > -Pent 3/550Mhz, Windows box on the other end running TivoApp
> > (Version 2)
> > -no modifications to the Tivo box except the Tivo NIC Card, the
> > extractstream software, and web software.
>
> Have you tried sendstream instead of extractstream? There's a link
on
> my website, see below.
>
> > Using the TivoApp, I extract the .ty stream. No problems reported
> > at
> > all. Great. Once the stream is now saved on the windows machine, I
> > use TivoApp to "Convert tyStream Files".
> >
> > Okay, I have the 2 resulting audio and video files. Great. Take a
> > look at the video file, looks wonderful. Take a look at the audio,
> > and this is where the problem starts.
> >
> > Every so often thru the extracted file, I get an "audio pop" in
the
> > .mpa file, that is not heard in the original recording. It is
> > rather
> > annoying, and cannot find out where it is coming from.
>
> Have you tried splitstream? I have a slightly improved (the user
> interface requires less typing... more changes on the way)
> splitstream called zss, links to the original SS and my zss are on
my
> webpage as well.
>
> http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/tivo/index.cfm
>
> Different tools work on different things - sometimes you have to
make
> like a safecracker, and try different things in different
> combinations to see what works the best.
>
> Also, before extracting, did you put your tivo in standby mode? The
> teeeeny leeeeetle 53 Mhz Embedded PPC CPU in your unit can get
> overtaxed very easily.
>
> My site 'splains what works for me - of course, it may not for you
> but we have fairly similar setups, so it shouldn't take much more to
> figure out a combo that works for you, then you'll be boinin'! ;-)
>
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
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