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pfl2000
11-13-2002, 04:26 PM
I have been trying unsucessfully to take video from my Digital Video camera and insert it into my DTivo for playback.

I've been using MJPEG tools on my linux box to try and create proper .m2v and .m2a files that I can then insert using ele2pestriple.

I used dvgrab to get the video, then use dv2jpg to convert to an mjpeg encodede avi.

I then try mpeg2enc/mp2enc to demux the video and audio. But it seems that any .m2v file I create causes the Tivo to reboot when I attempt to insert.

Has anybody been able to do this using only Linux tools?
Any ideas about what parameters to pass mpeg2enc so that DTivo will be happy with the results.

Thanks in advance for any help.

pfl2000
11-13-2002, 08:07 PM
Of course after I posted this I was finally able to get some files that would import into the DTivo. The quality is not the greatest though, so I assume I will have to play around with the parameters some.

If anybody else cares about this here were the steps I took.

dvgrab created a file called dvgrab.avi

Then:
dv2jpg dvgrab.avi working.avi

Audio:
lav2wav working.avi | mp2enc -b 192 -r 48000 -s -o working.m2a

Video:
lav2yuv working.avi | yuvscaler -O SIZE_480x480 | mpeg2enc -f 3 -b 15000 -a 2 -n n -o working.m2v

On Tivo:
file-to-rec.tcl working working workingvid 0 202