EMC10 take forever to burn DVD?

[NoVa]

Followed TiVo's advice to try & burn a TV show to DVD & use Roxio Easy Media Creator 10.

Well I am approaching 3 hrs to burn a 1 hrs show.

What is going on?
Can I do anything to quicken this process?

Any help appreciated.

[quilter48473]

I have been very frustrated with EMC10. I have a pile of printouts from Roxio and TiVo on burning TV shows to DVD - the printouts make it seem very simple and straightforward but.... I have had success using My DVD for only one PBS exercise series. I have received error messages when trying to burn any other programs. I have also tried using Video Copy and Convert but that program just hangs up and apparently quits working. The only success I have had with Roxio is burning video podcasts to DVD so I can watch them with a standard DVD player. I only bought Roxio because the Tivo web site touted it so highly. If you are able to figure anything out I hope you will post your findings.

[qz3fwd]

Try using VideoReDo to create the dvd's for you, write them to hard drive, test them with software player, then lastly use a burning program to commit to optical disc.

[dlfl]

Try using VideoReDo to create the dvd's for you, write them to hard drive, test them with software player, then lastly use a burning program to commit to optical disc.
Welcome to the forum, Quilter!

This is excellent advice. You need VideoReDo TVSuite. It isn't free but you can try it uncrippled for free for several weeks if you just perform the free-trial registration.

VRD has a burner built in and perhaps it will work fine. Many people prefer to output from VRD as an ISO image and use a separate burning program. Two excellent free burning programs are imgburn and dvddecrypter. Just Google to find anything mentioned so far.

Many TiVo recordings, e.g., all TiVo Series 2 recordings, will play on most DVD players without being re-encoded. Thus you check the appropriate box in the VRD Create DVD form ("Accept Non-Compliant DVD Settings") and your ISO image will be ready for burning in less than 15 minutes. If you must have a perfectly DVD-compatible encoding, you don't check the box. Then you have to wait a lot longer while the video is re-encoded. This can take from 0.5 to 2 hours per hour of video depending on your computer power, etc.

I and many people have struggled with the Roxio stuff and now use other methods. Can't say EMC doesn't work but it just seems a lot of people have a hard time getting it to work acceptably. Not so with VRD.

[NoVa]

Thanks for the comments guys.
I have seen similar comments - from searching - that EMC10 is close to an utter failure.

I tried burning a WMV version from a 1hr TiVo transfer & stopped it after 1 hr @ 20% completion. Unacceptable again. Will give VideoRedo a try & throw away EMC10 which is an overall resource hog also.

Question: do TiVo files have to be decrypted first in order to be burned with either of these software?

[dlfl]

.......Question: do TiVo files have to be decrypted first in order to be burned with either of these software?
All TiVo files are encrypted at least in part. Other than that they are just mpeg2 files with extra header info that includes metadata. Programs like VRD or EMC perform the decrypting transparent to the user but they require you have TiVo Desktop (free) installed and have entered your MAK. There is free software (Google TivoDecode) that will separate out the mpeg2 file without having Desktop installed. However it still requires your MAK (and it must match the MAK of the TiVo that made the recording).

[NoVa]

All TiVo files are encrypted at least in part. Other than that they are just mpeg2 files with extra header info that includes metadata. Programs like VRD or EMC perform the decrypting transparent to the user but they require you have TiVo Desktop (free) installed and have entered your MAK. There is free software (Google TivoDecode) that will separate out the mpeg2 file without having Desktop installed. However it still requires your MAK (and it must match the MAK of the TiVo that made the recording).

Thanks for the info! Will look into TD also...sounds interesting.

[greg_burns]

Will look into TD also...sounds interesting.

http://www.gmonweb.com/portal/CodingFun/Downloads/tabid/54/Default.aspx

[jlb]

Another thumbs up for VR TV Suite. I used to use the older version and use DVDstyler for menus and then imgburn to burn. But TS has been great as a one stop shop. I like being bale to edit out the commericals and then just let it fly.