UK PAL TiVo Extraction

[kill1967]

I've been playing around with the various versions of extractstream 
and it's variants. I've been having moderate success using sendstream 
and tivoapp 2.2 to extract directly to MPEG2 and split streams, 
however extractsteam, extractstream(tivoapp) and mks_stream crash 
tivoapp whenever they try to capture anything that isn't to a raw .ty 
stream.

It seems that either extractstream or tivoapp is contributing to my 
lack of audio-synch when I use them to dump straight to a .ty file 
and then use tyconvertstream. When I use sendstream to capture, I get 
about 6 audio synch issues at when I convert to split streams .mvp 
and .mva. Is this normal ?

I get the impression that sendstream 0.3 isn't stripping out the PES 
headers, whereas the other extractstream variants do, is my 
assumption correct ?

I was also wondering what tools/programs other people are using ? 
Are most people using LINUX or Windows based tools, and what steps 
are they using to convert to a workable .mpeg (without audio sync 
issues) ?

Sorry for being a pain.

Cheers,

John