{"id":91,"date":"2007-05-13T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2007-05-13T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T22:24:00","slug":"editing-mpeg-video-from-tivo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Editing MPEG Video from TiVo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once the video is downloaded from the TiVo and converted to from TiVo to MPEG format, you can edit out parts you don&#8217;t want with a simple MPEG-2 video editor called <a href=\"http:\/\/gopdit.ath.cx\/\">GOPDIT<\/a>.  Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/gopchop.org\/\">gopchop<\/a> (on which GOPDIT is based) if GOPDIT makes poor transitions between video cuts.<\/p>\n<p>This will leave you with a 480&#215;480 MPEG, which isn&#8217;t usable for DVDs; they need 720&#215;480 (for NTSC in the US).  To convert the MPEG for NTSC DVD output, I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/fixounet.free.fr\/avidemux\/\">avidemux<\/a> using their <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avidemux.org\/admWiki\/index.php?title=Converting_to_DVD\">documentation on how to create a DVD with avidemux<\/a>, but the picture was a little choppy and the sound was out of sync.  My wife thought this was funny.  (I wasn&#8217;t so amused.)<\/p>\n<p>I got some instructions from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videohelp.com\/forum\/archive\/this-is-a-minefield-converting-mpeg-to-mpeg-for-dvd-t281705.html\">a videohelp.com forum<\/a> that worked better:<\/p>\n<p><code>ffmpeg -i tivoshow.mpg -target ntsc-dvd tivoshow.vob<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You can make a DVD with the output .vob file using <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/any2dvd\/\">any2dvd<\/a> (requires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surina.net\/soundtouch\/\">soundstretch<\/a>) or use dvdauthor directly.    See &#8220;Creating the DVD structure&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/article.pl?sid=06\/04\/17\/2058219\">in this Linux.com article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the video is downloaded from the TiVo and converted to from TiVo to MPEG format, you can edit out parts you don&#8217;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 480&#215;480 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}