Hauppage HD PVR

[DaMacFunkin]

Hello, everybody, i have recently purchased this item, basicaly to back up all my HD DVD titles to AVCHD DVD9's so i can play them at my g/f's house on her Panny BD deck. If i set my Toshiba EP30 to 720p output the PVR captures them fine with 640kbps 5.1 ac3, although the picture looks a little dull when you are used to 1080. Which brings me to the point, Trying to capture in 1080i from HD DVD brings problems, the captured file plays ok on Power DVD 8, but on BD Decks there is loads of ghosting and repeated frames, it is as if pull down needs to be applied / or removed from the stream (not sure which round that is). I know from manually transfering HD DVD to Blu-ray you need to apply a fix to the VC-1 stream before you can mux it, its as though this needs doing with the recorded stream before it is written to AVCHD. Does anybody know how i would fix this, or give me the exact technical wordage of what is happening so i can contact Hauppage and let them know exactly what is wrong, and what could be done to fix it...
Thanks. :thanks:

[Inspector.Gadget]

Why do you think you need to do this with a PVR? Why not just go the HD-DVD or HD-DVD/Blu-ray combo drive + AnyDVD + BD Rebuilder route? The PVR seems a rather roundabout way to get there.

[DaMacFunkin]

BD Rebuilder doesn't Convert HD DVD to Blu-ray.

[Inspector.Gadget]

Oops. There are other ways to do, it though. See http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=13783. Then run BD Rebuilder on the output BD structure. I'm sure you can save some steps in the middle by going directly to BD-9, but I'm at work and can't do the research right now.

[DaMacFunkin]

BD-9 is a sore point with Panasonic BD Players, also a lot of the HD DVD's i want to do have forced english subs for non english parts, i use BD Rebuilder for Blu-rays and find it o be very buggy with Universal titles, i have also manually converted HD DVD's to Blu-ray, believe me if i could just get the frame rate issues sorted this would be by far the quickest way to do it... to a DL DVD disk anyhow.
Please Please any help?
p.s. i have tried running vc1conv on the demuxed output, and obviousley it doesnt work because it doesn't find any vc-1 frames...

[Inspector.Gadget]

What is the framerate of the output 720p files? Are the input Blu-ray discs 1080i or 1080p?

[DaMacFunkin]

The recorded frame rate of the 720p files are 59.94, there are no blu-ray input disks, they are HD-DVD which outputs Video and audio differently than Blu-ray at 1080i (the maximum input the PVR takes). Manually the output from a HD-DVD reports as 1920x1080 29.97 Interlaced, which for Blu-ray needs pulldown applying to give 23.97 Progressive. also Dolby Digital + taken from a HD DVD is not compatible with Blu-ray and needs to be re-encoded (although audio isn't the issue here.