[TriLUG] DVD Authoring

[Ken Mink]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:53:01 -0500, John Turner <jdturner at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Here is the script I found to do this on the Mac
> http://webllama.net/tivo/tivo2dvd.pl
> 
> Since all the tools are command line I am sure you can get it to work
> under Linux if you can get all the external tools or similar for Linux.
> 
> Thanks said it doesn't work as nice as a DVD gui authoring tool.
> 
> John
>

Haha. My current solution is to copy the mpeg to my Powerbook and use
Toast to make a DVD. This works great as Toast allows for basic menus
and is gui driven. I'm trying to move this process to my Linux
desktop.
 
> 
> 
> On Dec 3, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:
> 
> > Well, since you have the mpeg file, it's now a matter of converting to
> > vob.  There's got to be someone here who's done that.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, which TiVo series do you have, and what did you use
> > to hack it?  When I hacked my tivo I ended up with choppy video, which
> > I wager was signs of a bad harddrive.  I put in my original drive and
> > the choppyness went away.  I certainly did not find it an easy process
> > as data was spread all across a ton of forum threads.
> >
> > I'll try again when I can get a bigger HD to run it on.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 12:04:38 -0500, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I am familiar with TyStudio. It is what I'm using to get the shows off
> >> the tivo and to remove the commercials. It buggy and crashes a fair
> >> amount. However, the crashes are predictable and it possible to work
> >> around them.
> >>
> >> TyStudio will produce a single mpeg which is suitable for a DVD or
> >> (S)VCD. What I'm looking for is easy to use, preferably gui based, dvd
> >> authoring software to set up the menu and build the file system to be
> >> burned to the dvd.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 11:52:00 -0500, Joseph Tate
> >> <dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Have you looked at tystudio?  There's a project on sourceforge for
> >>> doing this, but it seems to be quite dead.  I never got quite that
> >>> far
> >>> in my hacking.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:27:13 -0500, Ken Mink <ken.mink at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>>   I'm looking for a reasonably easy method for creating dvds of the
> >>>> shows I've downloaded from my tivo. I'd like to be able to create a
> >>>> simple menu as I'd like to put multiple episodes on each disk. I've
> >>>> googled around and all the linux tools seem to be command line and
> >>>> require many steps.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm running FC3, if that makes a difference.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Ken
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
" 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it
is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt