DVD writing

[billyb111b]

Well Yes.. and no

I recently restored a backup from mfstools, and now I record 
EVERYTHING at Best Q, and quess what? no more bad chunks, no more 
hiccups, no more timecode skips, just clean ty streams that convert 
into clean mpeg streams.. this is good, synch is good... so here 
is what I do.

ty stream -> mpeg w/ tyconvert
mpeg (vid)-> d2v frameserve w/DVD2Avi
mpeg (aud)-> mpa w/dvd2avi
mpa -> wav w/winamp
mpa file has time offset reported from DVD2avi in ms (usually 
negative) so I chop of the xx number of ms from start of wave with 
Wave Splitter.
d2v and wav -> TMPEGenc
fix green bar, resive to 720x480, cut to first commercial break.
save as tmpeg projct (1a.tpr)
cut from end of comm 1 to start of comm 2, save as 1b.tpr, etc...
convert tpr's -> avi's w/ VFAPIconvert
start mpeg encoder (I use CCE.. its super fast) and add each part 
avi
encode at VBR 2 or 3 pass (depending on time) converting the audio 
up to 48khz (also can be done by tmpeg or Winamp, not sure who does 
it best)
write finished mpeg to DVD! using authoring software of choice.

clean extracted streams yield clean synch-problem free streams. 
leaving in commercials gives a much simpler workflow, but I like em 
out. (actually I like to encode the commercials, but put them on a 
different title on the DVD, I figure they will be fun to watch in 10-
15 years) Ultimately, it would be nice to edit the commercials on 
the Tivo (or skip them alltogether.. cough... replay) but I dont 
mind the extra work for now...

Now the only problem is no TivoApp.. I have to extract by the old 
fasioned way.. and there is something off with the mfs data.. but 
Im not touching it, if it works, it works...

Tmpegenc does NOT do a great job resizing, but its the only way I 
can do batches of files to encode.. unless... nevermind.

I love my DVD writer, it works great.. and the blanks get cheaper 
by the week.

billy





--- In ExtractStream@y..., "anddmx2001" <anddmx2001@y...> wrote:
> *BUMP*
> 
> Billy, I was wondering if you got a chance to play with this 
anymore. 
> I'm thinking about grabbing a DVD Writer this week, with 99% of 
its 
> use for Tivo->DVD.
>