What extraction apps work with 3.0?

[George_Cercone]

Ok cool, good to know.
BTW does the quality setting matter with the utils that are out there?
I have recorded all my season pass stuff at High quality.
And what I am really trying to do is pull about 50 episodes of 
Farscape off and burn them to DVD.
Anyone interested in buying one Tivo, only recorded farscape, never 
fired, dropped only once? ;-)


I would think that iBurn? or iDVD whatever they are calling it, would 
handle mpeg2 especially with the SuperDrive.

On the analog front, I've looked at the iMac and the G4 desktop and 
laptop. For the Laptop which I do really like, that 16:9 screen is 
gorgeous and it has svideo out. For either desktop, I have a scan 
converter to go from vga to HDTV for my Wega. I still haven't gotten 
it to do 1080i correctly but I can am working on it. Otherwise I can 
use a standard vga to svideo scan converter.

Right now, I'm just trying to learn the process and what tools on 
which platform are available. It's one of those things that reading 
the posts may not make any sense. Then after hacking on the utils 
for awhile and re-reading them, it starts to make some sense.

Not that I'm knocking Tivo, but sheesh couldn't they have just used 
mpeg2 off the shelf, and made life a lot easier.


-G




--- In ExtractStream@y..., Matthew Barr <mbarr@m...> wrote:
> I don't have a new enough machine to have the dvd burner. I have a 
G4/400.
> So- I'm not sure of the options for burning. I do know that apple 
has some
> options out there for burning DVD's, but it may only be on the 
higher end
> that it allows mpeg-2 straight out. QuickTime *does not* support 
mpeg-2.
> QuickTime 6 does support mpeg-4, so Divx may be coming into that.. 
But I
> already have divx working on my machine, under 5. It's just another
> codec... 
> 
> http://mpeg4.jamby.net/ and now the divosx QuickTime codec at
> http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
> 
> The Imac can't do analog output easily. You will have to get some 
sort of
> firewire dv-> analog output. Ibooks & Powerbooks have svideo out, 
however,
> I believe. 
> 
> 
> Streaming servers exist- QuickTime streaming server in particular 
is free.
> 
> 
> Jaguar is a weird issue.. Not so much is known yet... Sorry.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> On 6/24/02 2:27 PM, "George_Cercone" <george_cercone@y...> wrote:
> 
> > Funny you mention OS X, I'm looking at either the iMac with the 
neat
> > LCD on a neck, or a G4. Good to know there is an option. Have 
you
> > burned to DVD yet? That is primarily my reason for doing it.
> > I know I can spend $400-$500 on a DVD burner for the pc, but right
> > now, I have a pc hiding behind the couch with an LCD screen, with
> > analog input/output to my 36"wega, firewire ports to external 
drives
> > and cables out the wazoo, so a nice clean box with it all inside 
is
> > my thinking. Also wondering with the support on Jaguar for mpeg2 
and
> > divx, if a descent streaming server can be setup from the mac as 
well.
> > 
> > -G
> > 
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