pure TiVo extract with TyTool, TyStudio and dvdauthor

favorite thing: cartoon networks adult swim. to pull the shows off the TiVo and burn a dvd, do this:

*prep done once*
1) check out the TiVo extraction forum at dealdatabase.com

2) install the latest TyTool and TyStudio on your windows box

3) run the latest tserver binary onto your TiVo box (from TyTool). Note you'll need to have network access to your tivo via either a usb network card or tivonet/turbonet, have enabled telnet in your /etc/rc.d/rc.startup or rc.network script or the ,#401 dial prefix hack. so telnet in and run tivoftp from /var/hack or wherever it is you extracted it to. now you can upload tserver_mfs7 and NowShowing.tcl. don't forget to chmod a+x them. when you're ready to download off the tivo with TyTool, just telnet in and ./tserver_mfs7 & and logout.

*done every time you download from TiVo*
1) use TyTool to download the video .ty files

2) use TyStudio to edit out commercials and transcode to .mpeg (this can be done with TyTool... but i like TyStudio better for this step)

3) since i don't want any goofy menu system, i simply use dvdauthor (command line) to batch finish the job. download and install cygwin, then download and compile dvdauthor (see extended entry for scriptie goodness)

here's my dvdauthor command line fun. (only works if you've got cygwin installed)

dvdauthor.exe -o . -t -v ntsc+16:9+720xfull -a ac3 `for i in * ;do echo "-f $i" ;done |xargs` && dvdauthor.exe -o . -T

so before you run it, cd to the directory where you've got nothing except the .mpeg files that you want on one dvd. after it finishes, you'll have a new VIDEDO_TS directory ready for burning, with each .ty file having been merged into a few big .vobs and each .ty will be a separate chapter within the .vob files. (NOTE the filenames can't have any spaces in them because of the ghetto script i wrote)

anyway, now you've got a VIDEO_TS directory ready to burn with nero

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