TiVo MPEG files

ChristerTX wrote on 1/22/2005, 4:02 PM

This is slightly off topic but if you have a TiVo series 2 you can now move the MPEG2 files that TiVo creates to your PC.

BUT you can NOT do anything in MS with them. MS does not recognize the MPEG file.

You need MyDVD 6.1. It is a pretty good DVD Authoring Software.

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gogiants wrote on 1/22/2005, 5:57 PM

I'd be curious to hear the details of this. There are apparently at least two of us that occassionally grab clips off of TiVo for editing. All of these questions of course assume that one has received express written permission to use the video. (!)

I had heard that you need to get MyDVD 6.1. Do you just have to buy the software, or do you have to buy some special TiVo-related license on top of getting MyDVD?

Once you've burned a DVD using MyDVD, is the resulting DVD encyrpted in any way?

ChristerTX wrote on 1/22/2005, 9:03 PM

Yes, you need to buy MyDVD.

I don't know if the DVD is encrypted.
I just burned one and the quality was really good. I could play it fine on my DVD player.

MyDVD let you crop and cut the file to you hearts content. You can even add titles etc to the video.

The MPEG2 file from Tivo requires you to put in a password to play the file on e.g. Windws Media player.

ChristerTX wrote on 1/23/2005, 6:00 AM

I looked at the DVD that I had created and the one hour program had been split in to three equally sized .VOB files.
I could copy one of the files to my hard disk and then rename to .mpg and play without problems.
I assume that this means that it is not encrypted ?

It was still in a format that was not recognized by VirtualDub. I get the message "no video frames found in MPEG file".

ScottW wrote on 1/23/2005, 7:46 AM

You cannot use CSS encryption with burned DVD's, only commercially stamped ones. The key information is stored in an area that burners cannot access, and then of course you'd need one of the key pairs (which must be purchased).

--Scott

ruddyone wrote on 1/24/2005, 11:30 AM

You may be interested in the end of this article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6844684/

trock wrote on 1/27/2005, 7:14 AM

I just record directly out of my TIVO straight into a standalone DVD Recorder. Simple and works fine.