Want to transfer Tivo to computer and burn a DVD?

[nbitner]

I have the USB adapter to get Tivo programs to my computer. Now I want to save the program to a DVD. Tivo technical says it can be done, but they won't tell me how.

[greg_burns]

VidoReDo TVSuite (http://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm)

[RobAtSGH]

VidoReDo TVSuite (http://www.videoredo.com/en/index.htm)

Concur. VideoRedo is a savior - simplest conversion/editing tool out there. I struggled with a half-dozen marginal utilities for about a month trying to get acceptable final output before coming across VRD. If you can deal with an extra step, VRD combined with DVDStyler (http://www.dvdstyler.de/) get you the same end functionality with a little less cost.

[chrishicks]

can you keep the Dolby Digital tracks with VideoRedo?

[greg_burns]

can you keep the Dolby Digital tracks with VideoRedo?

Yes.

Er. Wait, this is in context of burning a DVD. I am not 100% sure of that. :o

It does say Audio Encoding "AC3", no change. So I am guessing yes.

http://i14.tinypic.com/80zjb5z.jpg

[msmart]

can you keep the Dolby Digital tracks with VideoRedo?Yes.

ADDED: Rats, Greg beat me to it, and his edited post is much more elaborate. :( HERE (http://www.videoredo.net/msgBoard/showthread.php?t=5771) is an interesting thread on AC3 subject in VRD.

[gibby]

Hello,
I was using nero 7 to burn my tivo to go show to a dvd but since I upgraded to 7.1 or the latest version it is now all pixalated and crap !! what changed ? is there something going on that we don't know about or should I do a full upgrade to version 8 of nero ? I liked nero becasue the quality realy never changed is keep it all tivo like ... other programs that I have tried the picture on the dvd just did not look the same as tivo.
Mark

[greg_burns]

I liked nero becasue the quality realy never changed is keep it all tivo like ... other programs that I have tried the picture on the dvd just did not look the same as tivo.
Mark

Take a look at my screen shot above. VRTS will tell you with the yellow icons when it has to do a transcode (which is when picture quality will degrade).

It is doing it in my sample only becuase this was an HD video.

Nero will transcode everything but Medium .tivo files, IIRC. VRTS is smarter than that. You can make non-compliant DVDs that will paly in most DVD players, w/o needing to transcode to a compliant DVD format.

[gibby]

Thanks Pink Floyd man,
I think I will give redo a try I just have been using nero for so long now and I also see that they are now going to create some software for tivo I would think they have all the keys for every bit or bite that tivo creates ...
I have no Ideal why this stuff can't be simpler
Mark

[greg_burns]

Make sure you register the trial of VRTS or you'll be limited to only 15 or 30 minutes of video.