gcercone
07-31-2002, 11:52 AM
Ok, now I'm happy. I've burned 2 successful DVD-R's that work
as best as I can tell perfectly and at a quality that I like.
I'll post a full HOWTO on it, once I get it doc'd.
My goal was to fit 2 hours of Video onto a DVD-R 4.7GB
Quick run down of what I did.
1. Installed TurboNet Card.
2. setup telnet, ftp, tivo-web and tytool. (all start on boot)
3. Figured out the ration of VBR and CBR that Tivo is setup with.
4. Set CATVBestResolution to 0 = 720x480 on Philips SA
5. Set CATVBestVBRBitrate to 4200000
6. Set CATVBestMAXBitrate to 4800000 (This is what is used)
7. Made the same setting changes on the altresource page.
8. Fried my A drive, cloned my other tivo to this and did it all over
again. 3 days of frustration and 50 hours of farscape gone!
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At this point what the Tivo now does is a 720x480
(standard DVD? None of the DVD auth programs complain about)
at just under 5Mb/s, the audio is the only thing out of spec.
***The resulting file is 2092 I think this is just at the 2GB border
and should work fine on fat/fat32/ntfs etc.
9. Download via TYTool (what a great program!!!) and have it
auto split.
10. Run the audio through TMPGenc.
(If you do audio only and change it from the 320000 to 480000 this will then import cleaning no issues with the bitrate being 192.
I set the bitrate to 48khz and 224bits. This takes 15 minutes per hour to convert.)
11. I then load the files into spruceup, make simply chapter points to skip commercials and compile.
12. I use Nero to burn it to DVD-r.
On my system which is not a powerhouse except for RAM.
(p3 800mhz 100mhz bus, 1.5GB Ram and a 7200 rpm disk.)
It takes the following amount of time per hour of video.
30 minutes to download via turbonet and tytool
15 minutes to import and author title screen and chapters.
15 minutes to compile.
30 minutes to burn on a 2x DVD-r
So about an hour of work for an hour of video which was my goal.
No transcoding of the video, or cuting, the audio sounds great.
Since the Tivo is running at HIGH and only recording at HIGH by getting that bitrate to a level that was acceptable was the key for me. It is 500MB shy of the normal HIGH quality. I'm sure this could be tweaked to get the size down, but 2 hours of video fits nicely onto a 4.7GB dvd.
Thats the long and short of it. I'll post a more detailed howto soon, but wanted to share this, give something back.
-Aries
as best as I can tell perfectly and at a quality that I like.
I'll post a full HOWTO on it, once I get it doc'd.
My goal was to fit 2 hours of Video onto a DVD-R 4.7GB
Quick run down of what I did.
1. Installed TurboNet Card.
2. setup telnet, ftp, tivo-web and tytool. (all start on boot)
3. Figured out the ration of VBR and CBR that Tivo is setup with.
4. Set CATVBestResolution to 0 = 720x480 on Philips SA
5. Set CATVBestVBRBitrate to 4200000
6. Set CATVBestMAXBitrate to 4800000 (This is what is used)
7. Made the same setting changes on the altresource page.
8. Fried my A drive, cloned my other tivo to this and did it all over
again. 3 days of frustration and 50 hours of farscape gone!
-----------------------
At this point what the Tivo now does is a 720x480
(standard DVD? None of the DVD auth programs complain about)
at just under 5Mb/s, the audio is the only thing out of spec.
***The resulting file is 2092 I think this is just at the 2GB border
and should work fine on fat/fat32/ntfs etc.
9. Download via TYTool (what a great program!!!) and have it
auto split.
10. Run the audio through TMPGenc.
(If you do audio only and change it from the 320000 to 480000 this will then import cleaning no issues with the bitrate being 192.
I set the bitrate to 48khz and 224bits. This takes 15 minutes per hour to convert.)
11. I then load the files into spruceup, make simply chapter points to skip commercials and compile.
12. I use Nero to burn it to DVD-r.
On my system which is not a powerhouse except for RAM.
(p3 800mhz 100mhz bus, 1.5GB Ram and a 7200 rpm disk.)
It takes the following amount of time per hour of video.
30 minutes to download via turbonet and tytool
15 minutes to import and author title screen and chapters.
15 minutes to compile.
30 minutes to burn on a 2x DVD-r
So about an hour of work for an hour of video which was my goal.
No transcoding of the video, or cuting, the audio sounds great.
Since the Tivo is running at HIGH and only recording at HIGH by getting that bitrate to a level that was acceptable was the key for me. It is 500MB shy of the normal HIGH quality. I'm sure this could be tweaked to get the size down, but 2 hours of video fits nicely onto a 4.7GB dvd.
Thats the long and short of it. I'll post a more detailed howto soon, but wanted to share this, give something back.
-Aries