More On Converting DVDs For Playback On Your TiVo
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 how to convert a DVD to MPEG2. Joshua has put together a tutorial of his own 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.
Thanks Joshua for sharing this with us! Great work!
October 29th, 2005 at 11:51 am |
FYI TiVo introduced a 16:9 mode with system software 7.2 specifically for handling uploaded widescreen mpegs. It can be found under Settings > Video.
October 29th, 2005 at 12:03 pm |
OK I’m going to correct myself here… this appears related to widescreen TV’s (which I have). Your mileage may very with a 4:3 set.
October 30th, 2005 at 2:12 pm |
Yeah enabling that mode will get rid of the blury effect when playing 16:9 video, but it has the same problem where it doesn’t add the letterbox. Hopefully Tivo can correct the problem with a software update, but for now manually adding the letterbox is required.