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I have a counter opinion to the reply to got from Rodger. I too
want to archive a few shows a week. I purchased a Dazzle DVCII
capture card, and in my opinion if you are going to archive to VCD (or
even SVCD) the analog capure from that will be as good as you can get
directly off the Tivo.... (I know, I know, another analog to
digital conversion DOES hurt quality, but in this case it is so little as
to not matter.)<br>
<br>
I agree with the speed of the computer though. I had a 950 mhz AMD,
and for editing out commercials it was too painfully slow. I now
have a 1.8ghz P4, 1 gig of ram and it is great.<br>
<br>
BTW, I save off 7 or 8 thirty minute shows on a single DVD-R using a
Pioneer DVR-A03 burner. (30 minute shows are actually 22 minutes
with the commercials edited out)<br>
<br>
I am going to get my TiVo ethernet enabled, but I have DirecTiVo and the
problems with extraction are just now getting resolved for these.
Then I will burn DVD's with one or two movies per DVD (depending upon
content, bit rate, etc)<br>
<br>
At 01:21 PM 2/16/2002 -0500, ThePith1@a... wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><tt>Hi,<br>
My DIRECTV tivo unit should arrive next week and I am trying
to decide if <br>
this whole tivonet (or turbo net) is worth it. <br>
My reason for wanting tivonet in the first place is video
extraction to <br>
video CD archive. I am very familiar with video CD and conversion
so that <br>
isn't an issue.<br>
I have a fast PC running windows XP with lots of
harddrive space, and I <br>
consider myself pretty confident with poking around the inside of my
<br>
computer.<br>
I do not know LINUX and hear that video extraction isn't
very reliable. <br>
i.e.- most video extraction end up with artifacts, or messed up audio and
<br>
only after trying to sandwich two extracted streams from your tivo
unit.<br>
I am looking for something that might be a little
complicated at first but <br>
once it is established I could just simply call up my tivo unit and pull
some <br>
videos. Is this realistic or not?<br>
And if it is, where do I find the most current, clear, and concise <br>
information on how-to?<br>
Thank you,<br>
-Lary<br>
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