[ExtractStream] UK PAL TiVo Extraction

[Michael Loftis]

I've been using a set of steps with fairly good success posted earlier 
by jdiner. I fisrt use mfs_stream to extract the .ty (to an NFS mounted 
volume). From there I use his vsplit program to produce the seperate 
files and get a synch offset for use later. From there I use dvd2avi to 
produce a d2v file which I then feed to vfapiconv to produce a .avi of 
the video. the m2a i send through winamp which I have write it out to a 
.wav file. I recombine everything in virtualdub using the synch offset 
obtained from vsplit to synch the audio and video up before dubbign and 
compression. After those steps I use avifrate to manually adjust the 
framrate to 29.972 FPS (from 29.970) to bring the audio back into 
perfect sync after convertign to an mp3 audio stream.

I usually compress into DivX format for video and MP3 format for audio 
and haven't noticed any problems with these set of steps. I know its 
convuluted and complex. Thats why I want to get a copy of source code 
for all these programs and make them into one end-to-end system.

kill1967 wrote:

>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.
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>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 ?
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>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 ?
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>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
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