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Re: [TiVo] Extraction the easy way



What is the best program to use to reduce the 2Gb MPEG2 file down to a
size/format capable of going on a VCD? Anyone any suggestions?

thanks
Neil

> Just stumbled upon a page which describes a one click (well, almost)
> solution for extracting video off the TiVo onto a Window (in my case
XP)
PC.
> Just tried it out with an episode of 24 and it worked very well.
Obviously
> the quality/size might not be up to DVD, but for watching it on a
laptop
on
> the train (my motivation behind it all) it is more than enough.
>
> The url: http://tipster.stormrad.com/tivo/extraction.html
>
> It describes a step by step guide, and offers you the download to
> TyTools6r2, the client/server software needed to get a stream from the
TiVo.
> Once extracted, you can use PowerDVD (which I do) to play it back,
just
like
> that!  No muxing, pluxing or tuxing (whatever that is) needed, and
approx
1
> hour takes 20 minutes to extract (and is about 2Gb big).
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Q.




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