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  11-22-2012, 11:17 PM
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As the title states can someone point me or tell me how to take from my DVR to computer encode which of course will be to dvd. First time owning a dvr in a while.
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  12-27-2012, 01:37 PM
 
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Need to know:

Name of your cable co.
Manufacturer of the DVR
Model number of the DVR
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  02-03-2013, 09:52 PM
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Cable Company : Time Warner
Box : SA Explorer 8300 HDC
TV Tunner: Hauppage WinTV HVR-1600

Would love to copy the hd formats to computer to burn to dvd
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  02-04-2013, 12:46 AM
 
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Good news: you should be able to capture at least your local HD channels via Firewire.

Bad news: you will need to use a Mac OS X machine (preferable IMO) or a Windows x86 (32-bit) machine.

Just google with the model number of your DVR and "firewire" for the info on how to do it.
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  02-04-2013, 11:53 PM
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can u do that with directv hr24 to macoscx
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  02-05-2013, 04:41 AM
 
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No. DirecTV is totally locked up.

The only reason you can record stuff from cable to PC is that the US government mandated it. Satellite has different regulations.
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I just got a Hauppauge Colossus card will this help or do I still need to do it with a firewire? since this allows HDMI
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  02-08-2013, 12:25 AM
 
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The Colossus will produce inferior video quality to a Firewire capture, as Firewire is a copy of the original stream and an HDMI capture is a recompressed version of the stream.
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If you have Direct TV and want to capture to your computer disc get a PLEXTOR PX-AV200U conector. USB on one end, A/V on the other to connect to the Direct TV box.

It comes with the I/P software. You will need something like TMPGEnc Authoring Works 4 to edit the files captured and write the resulting output files to disc. Then you will need something like CloneDVD2 to write the files to your DVD drive.
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  02-12-2013, 09:21 PM
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So got the firwire cable only to look around to find out this usually only works on a XP Machine and 32bit at that. So far no luck in appropriate software for this nor a good driver.
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  02-14-2013, 10:45 AM
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Ok after long time got this working to the way I need it thanks to all
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So got the firwire cable only to look around to find out this usually only works on a XP Machine and 32bit at that. So far no luck in appropriate software for this nor a good driver.
"Look around"? Or look in this thread?

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Bad news: you will need to use a Mac OS X machine (preferable IMO) or a Windows x86 (32-bit) machine.
Hope you were able to get the Firewire way working.
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  02-17-2013, 09:17 AM
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yea you did say it but alas my machine is 64bit , still wanted to see if the drivers were out there for 64bit alas nope.
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My own solution was to buy an old iBook. Unfortunately I get odd glitches in the recordings from time to tome. I suppose the storage system of the laptop cannot keep up, but that would be odd since the bitrate of these files is only some few megabytes per second.
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  02-25-2013, 09:57 PM
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Yea now I need to figure out what is a good capture settings for these HD files to transfer to dvd ugh lol...
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