Alternate TV listing options

[john_pappas]

With all due respect, YOU PANSIES! TiVo raised their rates $3/month 
after roughly 2 years of unchanged, wonderfull service. They sort of 
let us hack around in these boxes, and have been an all-around 
wonderfull company in my eyes. More importantly, I suspect these 
subscriptions are TiVo's largest source of income. You're not 
obligated, but it wouldn't kill you to pay them a few extra bucks. 
On top of that, they're giving you a money saving option. How many 
of you seriously can afford technology like a TiVo, but feel $3/month 
is going to put you out of food and home?

For the record, this was not the most appropriate place to post such 
a question, although I supposed we want people to feel free to say 
what they like here.

To keep my post on topic, here is a question about ExtractStream...

I've got so far as to synch up each of 3 segments of some 30 minute 
shows, and then combine them with TMPGEnc so as to have a single mpg 
file that is synched as close as I can get it. I got that far by 
doing:
ExtractStream -> 
WinAmp for wav and DVD2AVI for d2v -> 
TMPGEnc to combine each audio + video into 3 segments -> 
VirtualDub to synch audio in each -> 
TMPGEnc to combine the three segments. 

The problem is that this file is synched, but after I remove 
commercials in Adobe Premiere, and export via bbMPEG using fairly 
standard settings, the audio is out of synch later in the resulting 
file. Both VirtualDub and Premiere are set to interlace every frame 
in my setup. When I check the same few spots in the show in the 
combined file I edited using Premiere, audio and video are synched. 
Any idea what I could be doing wrong? I'm getting close to wiping my 
TiVo and starting over using only BEST encoding to see if that fixes 
my synch issues in my extracted video. I've tried a lot of the other 
methods here and haven't come up with a good product yet.

thanks, and no offense STUFTOYS, I just want people to support TiVo.
-john

--- In ExtractStream@y..., STUFTOYS <fontpro@u...> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I just got the e-mail from Tivo that they are raising the 
subscription 
> fee almost 30% a month. Way too expensive for information i get 
free from 
> my cable company, and available online. i know it is Taboo to talk 
on 
> the AVS board about this. But since Extract stream is also Taboo 
there, I 
> was wondering if anyone on this list can point me to info on 
loading my 
> own TV listings from the net. Frankly the times and show names are 
all I 
> care about. I seldom read the descriptions.
> 
> You can currently get your TV listing free using this program:
> 
> http://www.cherrynebula.net/projects/tvlisting/tvlisting.php
> 
> It will creat a text or HTML output of your listing.
> 
> i think Tivo will start loosing a lot of customers with this. By 
the way 
> we have 4 tivos. I'm paying more per year for Tivo service than I 
paid 
> for my Tivo.
> 
> Any help on list or privately would be appreciated.
> 
> Should have Turbo Ethernet set up soon.
> 
> Jerry