Audio troubles Extracting....

[anddmx2001]

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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