[ExtractStream] Re: Alternate TV listing options

[Mark Jeffcoat]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 12:59:42PM -0800, David Ranch wrote:
> 
> I tried multiple times in the past using ONLY linux but with
> pretty poor quality results. Any thoughts? I'd like to FULLY
> automate the entire process. I documented all my linux scripts
> and even the creation of the TivoNET here:
> 

I've only got Linux, and even with the help of Chris Chiappa's
page at http://www.chiappa.net/~chris/tivo_linux_extract.html,
I found all the Linux re-encoding software to lie somewhere
between not very useful and a complete waste of time. I'm
getting my SVCD fix by adjusting the recording resolution
and bitrates directly on the Tivo (using Tivoweb). This 
avoids re-encoding, and I'm quite satisfied with the quality,
as long as I don't get too greedy in how much I try to
fit on one CD.

Your mileage may vary, but I think you'll be doing well to
get most of the non-Windows based tools just to build--I 
just got tired of messing with them and found changing the
bitrate on the Tivo to be far and away the best time/quality
trade-off.

-- 
Mark Jeffcoat