{ 2007 06 14 }

TiVo to DVD: Summary

Here’s the full procedure for making a DVD from something on your TiVo:

  1. Browse to https://your TiVo’s IP address

    2. Log in with user=tivo and password=Your TiVo’s MAK

  2. Download the show. We’ll call it tvshow.TiVo

  3. Convert to MPEG

    4. tivodecode -m MAK -o tvshow-orig.mpg tvshow.TiVo

  4. Optional: Edit with Gopdit

    5. gopdit tvshow-orig.mpg

    Save to tvshow.mpg

  5. Transcode for NTSC DVD

    6. ffmpeg -i tvshow.mpg -target ntsc-dvd tvshow.vob

  6. Create DVD Author file

    7. Make a file called tvshow-dvdauthor.xml that contains this:

    <dvdauthor>
      <vmgm />
        <titleset>
          <titles>
            <pgc>
              <vob file="tvshow.vob" chapters="0,10:00,20:00,30:00,40:00,50:00" />
            </pgc>
          </titles>
        </titleset>
    </dvdauthor>

    (This chapters list assumes a 1-hour show with chapters every ten minutes.)

  7. Create the DVD structure

    8. dvdauthor -o dvd -x tvshow-dvdauthor.xml

  8. Check the DVD

    9. mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device ./dvd

  9. Burn the DVD

    10. growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvdrw -dvd-video ./dvd

Posted by Zymurgeek on Thursday, June 14th, 2007, at 9:40 am, and filed under Uncategorized.

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