How to move recordings from DVR to DVD?
 

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.

Need to know:

Name of your cable co.
Manufacturer of the DVR
Model number of the DVR

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

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.

can u do that with directv hr24 to macoscx

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ok after long time got this working to the way I need it thanks to all

"Look around"? Or look in this thread? :confused:

Hope you were able to get the Firewire way working.

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.

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.

Yea now I need to figure out what is a good capture settings for these HD files to transfer to dvd ugh lol...