Comments on: How To Convert DVD Movies To MPEG-2 For Playback On Your TiVo

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:27:55 +0000

good job bob.

By: bob

bob — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:50:51 +0000

yeah, by the way click bob if you want to find out how to play quicktime, without…QUICKTIME!!!!

By: bob

bob — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:48:08 +0000

just go to my web page!
I figured out how to play quicktime files! Without quicktime!
I have spent many hours working on this, if you have any questions, leave them on my web page.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:26:36 +0000

apple.com?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:16:11 +0000

Argh!

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:14:17 +0000

Anybody?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:10:07 +0000

I’m back!

okay,
so if there aren’t any programs out there that convert mov files to wmv files, then where can I get a copy of quicktime player?

Perferably zipped or somehow small-a-lized (I have dial-up, so it would take a million years if the file was 5mb)

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:11:57 +0000

Your’e sure there isn’t any way of doing it?
oh well.

got to go, I’ll be back later.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:10:39 +0000

I’ve tried many programs but none seem to work.

you might need to bite the bullet and buy Quicktime. This is why I bought it.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:09:15 +0000

I’ve tried many programs but none seem to work.

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:07:58 +0000

yes I did already, thanks for the advice though.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:06:34 +0000

did you do a google search?

I’ve never done it myself but I’m sure it’s possible. Anybody have any specific advice?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:04:40 +0000

hello? Please help

By: bob

bob — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:54:31 +0000

how do you convert mov files into wmv files, without having installed quicktime player itself?

just wondering if anyone knew.

By: kekexili

kekexili — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:43:24 +0000

choose this powerful and handy tool to burn video DVD disc from exist DVD VCD SVCD compatible MPEG files which has been converted using your video converting tools.

http://www.purchaseshareware.com/multimedia-design-video/amor-mpeg-to-dvd-burner9369-10.htm

By: charles

charles — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 05:35:21 +0000

why not use Amor MPEG to DVD Burner. it’s really a useful tool!

http://www.yaodownload.com/video-design/video/amor-mpeg2dvd-burner/ check out it!

By: Joshua Garnett

Joshua Garnett — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:00:17 +0000

“Joshua’s tutorial is good, but adds a couple of longer steps… after creating one vob with dvdshrink, use dvd patcher to convert 16:9 to 4:3. Only takes a few seconds. Also, AC3 audio works fine on my tivo w/o dvdr… so no need to convert to wav” — Tivo Guy

DVDPatcher will make the video playable (you can also just goto Settings->Video and enable 16:9 support), but if your TV doesn’t add the letterbox to the 16:9 stream you end up with a stretched image, which in my opinion is not watchable.

By: Tivo Guy

Tivo Guy — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:01:12 +0000

Joshua’s tutorial is good, but adds a couple of longer steps… after creating one vob with dvdshrink, use dvd patcher to convert 16:9 to 4:3. Only takes a few seconds. Also, AC3 audio works fine on my tivo w/o dvdr… so no need to convert to wav

By: TiVoBlog.com » Blog Archive » More On Converting DVDs For Playback On Your TiVo

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:12:40 +0000

[...] I just received the following feedback from Joshua Garnett. Apparently Joshua found a post on this site which linked him to Dave Zatz’s article on converting a DVD so that you could play it back with your TiVo. Joshua has put together a tutorial which is suppose to address some drawbacks he found in Dave’s tutorial. Read on for the link to Joshua’s site. After searching on google for a way to transfers movies to Tivo, I stumbled upon your site. You included a link to another site, http://www.zatznotfunny.com/dvdshrink.htm, that offered an easy way to convert DVDs into content that’ll play on a Tivo. After experimenting with the How To, I found a few drawbacks. Mainly the fact that most Tivo’s can’t render 16:9 content properly. After reading through numerous guides and making a few guesses I’ve found a way to convert the 16:9 content to letterboxed 4:3. This is by using all freeware/shareware. I think others would benefit from my findings. Anyways, here is a link to the guide. [...]

By: Tivo Guy

Tivo Guy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:20:41 +0000

Ok, so here’s what I figgured out.. I have a widescreen TV that supports the 16:9 aspect ratio, yet the TiVo is playing the 16:9 aspect ratio incorrectly. So I used DVDpatcher to modify the mpeg header into 4:3. Also, I can confirm that AC3 audio does work fine on my DVR without a DVDBurner.

I only wish TiVo wasnt so picky… PAL is not supported, 25 fps is not supported, I mean cmon TiVo, get with the program

By: Tivo Guy

Tivo Guy — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:41:29 +0000

Well, second try with different DVD source, same problem.. Video is distorted ect…

By: TiVo Guy

TiVo Guy — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 03:33:29 +0000

I just tried this method, ac3 audio with 1 track worled fine on my DVR, but for some reason the video is all distorted. I followed everything exactly but video was horrible, almost even unwatchable.

I’ll try a different dvd to follow up this post

By: Roger Benningfield

Roger Benningfield — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:23:39 +0000

Alex: It depends upon how much (if any) compression you use when reauthoring. If you apply max compression in something like DVDShrink, I’ve seen full-length features as small as 2GB. For an action flick, you might end up in the 3-4GB range. (More if you’re picky about MPEG artifacts.)

That seems like a ton of consumed space, but if you RAID together a few 300GB drives, that’s a lotta room for video.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:48:25 +0000

1. The reason to do this is so you can archive your entire DVD collection (or maybe Netflix’s entire DVD collection) to your hard drive - giving you your very own video-on-demand library, from any Tivo in the house.

Good point… How large are these files when you rip them? Wouldn’t you need to have a lot of disc space in order to create a true “video-on-demand” library?

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:37:29 +0000

I have two comments…

1. The reason to do this is so you can archive your entire DVD collection (or maybe Netflix’s entire DVD collection) to your hard drive - giving you your very own video-on-demand library, from any Tivo in the house.

2. Tivo’s published specs are incorrect. Like others said some DVDs/MPEGs work and others don’t. We’re narrowing it down to high bitrates and/or possible audio track issues (on Tivo with and without DVD drives) but don’t know for certain. Tivo’s software isn’t very fault tolerant yet. Hopefully, the next release will do better.