[ExtractStream] Re: UK PAL TiVo Extraction

[Michael Loftis]

kill1967 wrote:

>Thanks for the pointer to vsplit11b, I've since downloaded and used
>Audiocheck on a stream pulled with sendstream. Since running it I've
>decided not to use sendstream as audiocheck indicated that there seems
>to be a lot of problems with invalid chunks (at least a lot of audio
>errors).
>
>I've moved back to mfs_stream_withpri1, but have still to check the
>stream.
>
>I gather you're mounting a linux partition, which I've certainly read
>is a preferred method. At the moment my laptop doesn't seem to like
>installing LINUX, so I'm looking at SAMBA again, but nobody seems to
>have recompiled it since the US 2.0.1 TiVO release. 
>
Err actually :) Heh I use NFS to a Windows box :)

http://www.jgaa.com/

Browse to the War NFS Daemon. It's *not* perfect but it does work well 
enough to dump streams off the TiVo. And best of all ITS FREE! :)

>
>
>OH well, it won't be a problem when I get my TiVo on the permanent LAN.
>
>Thanks for the pointers.
>
>Regards,
>
>John
>
>--- In ExtractStream@y..., Michael Loftis <mloftis@w...> wrote:
>
>>And yes, this is a .avi file.
>>
>>I've given up on mpeg conversion. The tools just don't seem to be
>>
>there 
>
>>for that..... Although... Now that I think about it you could have 
>>virtualdub save the stuff as a "raw" AVI file, then convert with
>>
>flask I 
>
>>think...? I dunno... Anyway best luck.
>>
>>Michael Loftis wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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