TiVo/DVB & DVD

kill1967 johngibb at c...
Wed, 08 May 2002 20:47:37 -0000


Has anyone been able to create a DVD-R/DVD+R from an extracted TiVo 
stream ?

I've been trying to create a cDVD/miniDVD from MPEG2 files extracted 
from a PAL TiVo stream, however the combination of software used, 
mfs_stream_pri1, nc, tivoapp (only to extract the .ty, as any other 
option crashes out on my laptop) and the wonderful tyconvertstream 
(for us PAL people), results in errors when I try to process the 
MPEG2 within DVDit PE. 

I repeatedly get errors that the GOP data needs to be preceeded by 
sequence headers, but no matter how I tweak the output from tmpgenc 
(forgot to mention that I'm using this to alter the DVB spec from 
TiVo to DVD standard) results in the same problems.

I've not tried the latest version of tyconvertstream yet, but I'm not 
sure whether the sequence headers are stripped out before that 
process. 

Since my nice new Sony DVD+RW/+R is due to arrive in a few days, I'm 
really looking for any help on doing a proper convertion.

Many thanks.