Poll: Who uses Roxio/Sonic for making DVD's from TiVo?

[dlfl]

I've put a lot of effort into, and made quite a few posts on, using Roxio (MyDVD in EMC9) to make DVD's from TiVo recordings and, although I've had some success, I still don't consider it reliable and still consider other methods preferable.

I am curious if there are people who use Roxio/Sonic stuff as their primary method for making DVDs from TiVo (and are happy with the results).

If you reply could you please include answers to the following:
1. Exactly which Sonic/Roxio product do you use (there are many and they do vary).

2. What resolution and bitrate are your TiVo files, or if you don't know that what Model TiVo and quality level of recording are you using?

3. Do you edit your files (e.g., to remove commercials)? If so what software do you use to edit? Does the edited file get loaded into Roxio/Sonic as an mpeg (.mpg)?

4. What "Project Settings" do you use, i.e., Resolution, Bitrate, etc.

5. Is roxio/sonic re-encoding when it burns? (If you see small preview video it is -- if you just see gray panel with oval lines it isn't.)

6. Do you burn straight to disc or to files, then later to disc?

7. Do your DVD's play perfectly? If not, what problems do you observe?

[sburks92131]

I have been using MyDVD for about 3 weeks and I have madeabout 7 DVDs. I am using version 6.2 and I have had great success. I joad the tivo recordings into MyDVD, edit out the commercials and burn to DVD. I have been using all of the default settings and have had no issues. I have some recordings that were in best mode, and some in high mode. MyDVD hass a feature called fit-to-dvd and I can fit 3 1 hour shows with no noticeable loss of quality. I have a series 2 tivo and am running tivo desktop 2.3a.

[2004raptor]

1. Exactly which Sonic/Roxio product do you use (there are many and they do vary).
Roxio MyDVD Premier 8

2. What resolution and bitrate are your TiVo files, or if you don't know that what Model TiVo and quality level of recording are you using?
Series 2, Best Quality

3. Do you edit your files (e.g., to remove commercials)? If so what software do you use to edit? Does the edited file get loaded into Roxio/Sonic as an mpeg (.mpg)?
Video Redo saves as .mpg

4. What "Project Settings" do you use, i.e., Resolution, Bitrate, etc.
Never changed anything so I guess default.

5. Is roxio/sonic re-encoding when it burns? (If you see small preview video it is -- if you just see gray panel with oval lines it isn't.)
I think it re-encodes.

6. Do you burn straight to disc or to files, then later to disc?
DVD

7. Do your DVD's play perfectly? If not, what problems do you observe?
One player plays fine but I've tried it on two others and they won't allow me to fast forward/rewind, etc. Can only play.

[2004raptor]

MyDVD hass a feature called fit-to-dvd and I can fit 3 1 hour shows with no noticeable loss of quality.
So you can get multiple one hour shows on one dvd at Best Quality?

I wish mine did that. I can't get much over an hour on mine. I think I had a 90 minute program that wouldn't fit even though I chose Fit to DVD and it clearly stated it had plenty of room left on the DVD.

[jjbett]

Does anyone get the problem where the .tivo file records to DVD fine, but there is no sound in the recording when replaying on a DVD player?

I burned other file types and their sound worked fine, but for some reason the 2 .tivo files I have tried look fine, but have no sound with them. Ideas?