New to the group, general questions

[celledge2]

Thanks Roger. Yes, your page was very helpful in getting me 
started!! I am in the US. I will do some more testing and gather 
more details on the problems I am seeing. The info about SVCD is 
helpful, thanks for that as well. I was mostly curious if quality 
affected the extraction/splitting process (other than the obvious: 
size of the file). I had read that VBR creates problem. 

Chris

--- In ExtractStream@y..., Roger Merchberger <zmerch7@y...> wrote:
> --- celledge2 <celledge2@y...> wrote:
> > I am new to the group. I have a stand alone Tivo running 2.5 
> > software and 2 X 40GB drives. I have installed Tivonet and 
played 
> > around for a few days now. I have tried several tools to extract 
> > video with only partial success. As a small test, I extracted 
the 
> > Tivo demo and it converted flawlessly.
> 
> Cool... what's the FSIDs for that? My daughter (3 years old) loves
> it... ;-)
> 
> > However, when I try to 
> > convert ty streams of my recordings, I either get video only or 
> > nothing at all (all bad). I also get a green bar down the left
> > side.
> 
> Dunno about the other problems -- there are many things that can go
> awry with the extraction / splitting process - but the green bar is
> normal.
> 
> Are you in the UK? UK PAL streams are different than the NTSC 
ones...
> 
> The more info you can provide us with, the easier it'll be to find
> out the problem.
> 
> > My questions:
> > 
> > Is it required to record at best quality? (dumb question I know, 
I
> > always do..just asking)
> 
> Not a dumb question, but methinks you're assuming the wrong 
reason...
> If you're looking to archive to DVD, you want best quality because
> it's a higher resolution than any other setting (544x480, IIRC), but
> if you're looking to archive to SVCD, you want to record at High
> Quality, as that's the same resolution as the SVCD spec, 480x480.
> Otherwise, you'll be transcoding down to that resolution anyway,
> that's a lot of extra download time & CPU time for essentially no
> better picture.
> 
> > Do others have problems with only some recordings converting 
> > successfully?
> >
> > With so many tools out there now, what is the best combination of 
> > extraction/conversion utilities? I have been using Tytool to
> > extract 
> > the ty streams because it is very easy to use. Then I have tried 
> > several different conversion tools including Tytool and
> > splitstream. 
> > I just don't end up with good audio and video files.
> 
> Have you seen my page at http://tivo.30below.com/zmerch ?
> Other than not mentioning TyTool yet, it's a pretty up-to-date
> walkthru of the methods I use to extract & archive my shows...
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> 
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