Sunday, May 13, 2007

 

Editing MPEG Video from TiVo

Once the video is downloaded from the TiVo and converted to from TiVo to MPEG format, you can edit out parts you don't want with a simple MPEG-2 video editor called GOPDIT. Also see gopchop (on which GOPDIT is based) if GOPDIT makes poor transitions between video cuts.

This will leave you with a 480x480 MPEG, which isn't usable for DVDs; they need 720x480 (for NTSC in the US). To convert the MPEG for NTSC DVD output, I tried avidemux using their
documentation on how to create a DVD with avidemux, but the picture was a little choppy and the sound was out of sync. My wife thought this was funny. (I wasn't so amused.)

I got some instructions from a videohelp.com forum that worked better:

ffmpeg -i tivoshow.mpg -target ntsc-dvd tivoshow.vob

You can make a DVD with the output .vob file using
any2dvd (requires soundstretch) or use dvdauthor directly. See "Creating the DVD structure" in this Linux.com article

# posted by Zymurgeek @ 5/13/2007 06:24:00 PM
Comments:
GOPDIT didn't work for me. dvbcut worked very well indeed. Thanks for your pointers, this was one of the more useful pages I found. Sad statement isn't it? Do you know a simple way to load movies onto the TiVo from linux? The only thing I can find for the purpose is "galleon" and it's not only written in Java (which I despise for unrelated reasons) but it's MUCH more than I want - just upload this file to the TiVo located at 192.168.1.18, M'kay?
# posted by Blogger John Gilmore : 10:27 PM
 
Hey John,

To get video to my Tivo from Linux, I use pyTivo.

--Z
# posted by Blogger Zymurgeek : 7:55 AM
 
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