pnwsun
02-06-2007, 12:36 PM
Hi,
I have been having way too much fun for one person :)
I am trying to make DVD's from television shows that I have saved on my Tivo box. I have Tivo desktop 2.3a on my Windows XP/SP2 computer. I have had no seeming difficulty transferring programs from my Tivo box to my computer. Oh, I forgot to mention that I have connected my Tivo box via ethernet to my PC. The problems started , as I imagine they do for everyone, when I tried to play one of the files I transferred. That's when I found out about decoders. I downloaded the SONIC MyDVD deluxe suite [which included their decoder and an editor]. That's when I found out that most editing programs don't read Tivo file types. After some looking around, I found Direct Show Dump. The world seemed good. I could transfer a file, copy the file from Tivo format to Mpeg format, edit it and then burn to disk. And I did this a couple of times. But the SONIC software was just too unstable for me [hung up at various points and always finished with three errors], so I deleted it and replaced it with AVS Tools. This seemed to work better for a time. Then the problems with Direct Show Dump began. I had gotten the dreaded "Error. AsyncReader:: SyncRead Failed" before but when I simply tried again, the program would compleat successfully. Now, I cannot get through ANY file that I have transferred. The program seems to fail at various points in the copying. It even fails with a file that it has successfully read some time earlier. I tried to play one of the files and WMP froze up. That's when I found that when I deleted the SONIC software from my computer, I also deleted their decoder. I bought [and installed] a copy of their decoder and then WMF could play the program. Ah, ha I thought that is the problem with Direct Dump, too. Unfortunately no; it still fails. I am writing this note in hopes that someone else has traveled down this path and can tell me what lies ahead.
Help.
I have been having way too much fun for one person :)
I am trying to make DVD's from television shows that I have saved on my Tivo box. I have Tivo desktop 2.3a on my Windows XP/SP2 computer. I have had no seeming difficulty transferring programs from my Tivo box to my computer. Oh, I forgot to mention that I have connected my Tivo box via ethernet to my PC. The problems started , as I imagine they do for everyone, when I tried to play one of the files I transferred. That's when I found out about decoders. I downloaded the SONIC MyDVD deluxe suite [which included their decoder and an editor]. That's when I found out that most editing programs don't read Tivo file types. After some looking around, I found Direct Show Dump. The world seemed good. I could transfer a file, copy the file from Tivo format to Mpeg format, edit it and then burn to disk. And I did this a couple of times. But the SONIC software was just too unstable for me [hung up at various points and always finished with three errors], so I deleted it and replaced it with AVS Tools. This seemed to work better for a time. Then the problems with Direct Show Dump began. I had gotten the dreaded "Error. AsyncReader:: SyncRead Failed" before but when I simply tried again, the program would compleat successfully. Now, I cannot get through ANY file that I have transferred. The program seems to fail at various points in the copying. It even fails with a file that it has successfully read some time earlier. I tried to play one of the files and WMP froze up. That's when I found that when I deleted the SONIC software from my computer, I also deleted their decoder. I bought [and installed] a copy of their decoder and then WMF could play the program. Ah, ha I thought that is the problem with Direct Dump, too. Unfortunately no; it still fails. I am writing this note in hopes that someone else has traveled down this path and can tell me what lies ahead.
Help.