DirecTV Tivo (i.e DTivo) to DVD?

[jfcarbel]

Anyone here doing DTivo to DVD? I am talking about the DirecTV Tivo version.

I have a hacked version (HDVR Series2) and was able to download the ty files to my PC. But after I convert ty to MPEG2 and edit the commercials out the final stream has some flickering during most of the scene changes.

Has anyone experienced this?

I am using TyTool latest verison and Womble MPG2VCR

[Erik_Osterholm]

I PM'd you, but not with much help :)
Is it a Macrovision problem, perhaps?

[robguy]

Try this link:
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/tools.php?tool=517#comments

[FredThompson]

RTFM

[jfcarbel]

More like RTFF (for the dealdatabase forum).

Yes, I did my homework and lots of it. After 3 weeks of research I have 3 different ways to edit DTivo streams and burn to DVD. However, I have yet to get the consensus on whats the best and most reliable way. Some info out there is old and stale. I tried to weed through what was no longer valid and develop a good step by step.

jdliner new TyTool does frame accurate editing now, so I need to try and see if it now works without any audio sync issues that Womble MPG2VCR avoided.

Here is a great step by step guide. I need to try this way:
DTivo to DVD guide (http://themurrays.homeip.net/downloads/tivo/extraction_articles/tivo_dvd.html)

I need to try some more ways and see if I can get rid of the flicker. I will post my results here on my final steps and versions of each tool used.

Feel free to contribute if you already have a perfect procedure.

[FredThompson]

I can't understand why you would have flicker. That's never been mentioned at DealDatabase.

There's nothing special about DVDs. You can burn the file set as a regular data disc. However, be aware that if you have any components which are over 2G, you'll need UDF burning.

Suggest you move the discussion over there.

[jfcarbel]

Thought I would chime in on what it turned out to be. My Sony DVD player was set to Film Mode and thus would not play the Tivo DVDs correctly since they are interlaced. Once I changed the mode from detect to forced interlace all was fine.