DVR

[shawndavid]

I just got this idea - I'm becoming bored watching Judge Milian dole out justice.

Post what's on your DVR's hard drive lying in wait for a shitty TV night.

Living room:

Modern Marvels: Engineering Disasters 18
Future Weapons: Future Shock
The Planets: Destiny
Uncharted Waters: Florida's Underground Water Vein
Super Bowl HIghlights: Bucs/Raiders
Intervention
Wife Swap (4)
The Blitz: London's Longest Night
College Football: '94 FSU/UN Orange Bowl
Treasure Hunters
Panda Nursery
The Silence of the Lambs (Amy)
Harry Potter (Amy)
China Rises
Dallas (Amy - 13 of them, geez honey catch the fuck up)
Rescue Me (2)
King of Cars
Reno 911
Weeds
Scarface (Amy, oddly enough)
The Killing Fields

Bed room:

Smokey and the Bandit (Amy)
Donnie Brasco (Amy)
A commercial I thought was funny
Dallas
30 Days
9 to 5 (Amy, jesus)
Guests of the Ayatolla
Lost Worlds: Manhattan Project
North Korea: Access to Evil
Bernie Mac (3)
Ultimate Survival: Everest
American Eats (3) (insert joke here - great show about history of foods)
Grizzly Man (Amy - we've seen it three times yet she still wants Timothy Treadwell on the friggin DVR)
Entourage
Lucky Louie
Twin Peaks
Coldplay Live Leak
A short clip from Runaway Bride that I had to record due to its sheer ridiculousness - we watch it when we need to laugh

This took WAY longer than I expected. I think I pulled a hammy.

[SemperFly]

some old episodes of Rescue Me and So You Think You Can Dance

I think I forgot to set it to record Stargate last week :(

[Sarcasmo]

VHS 4EVA

[fly]

We DVR:
Good Eats
30 minute meals
The Daily Show
Real World: Fresh Meat
Real World: Key West
The Messengers
How Drugs Became Illegal

[HydroSqueegee]

lets see... I only use it to record the Venture Brothers
Tish on the other hand...

The Wiggles
Most stuff on the WB/CW
Crossing Jordan
Cold Case
House
the 4400
some DIY shows
Supernatural

[bast_imret]

All in HD:
Lucky Louie
Serenity
Constantine
Kingdom of Heaven
Entourage

SD:
Think we watched all the stuff we had on there. Had been recording-
Last comic Standing
Hells Kitchen

Don't keep much on there. Usually we are prtty good about watching something that we recorded within the week, so we can delete it off the HDD. Mainly cause the HD movies take up so much space.

[BeerAd]

DVR =

Eureka
Stargate - Atlantis
Stargate - SG1
Mind of Mencia
Kyle XY
My Name is Earl
The Office
Simpsons
Family Guy
American Dad

As for Movies we have OnDemand

[FlamingGlory]

Equilibrium
Ventures Bros
Dead Like Me
Dirty Jobs
Eureka
Deathclock

I watch everything off DVR though... Never watch stuff on TV.

[bast_imret]

Equilibrium
Ventures Bros
Dead Like Me
Dirty Jobs
Eureka
Deathclock

I watch everything off DVR though... Never watch stuff on TV.

OH SNAP! You just made me realize that I can now DVR all the great shows on Adult Swim that I never catch anymore! Thanks!

[Ryokurin]

Irasshai: Japanese 1 and 2
5th gear
Its always sunny in Philadelphia
Motorweek

The Japanese lessons I need to archive badly, its something like 50 shows

[SemperFly]

I spent a while trying to figure out how to access the raw data on the DVR's hard drive but no such luck. I did manage to capture via Firewire but so far the only app that'll grab it properly is CapDVHS; Premier will bluescreen. :confused: Anyways, I managed to capture a couple episodes of So You Think You Can Dance to edit and upload for a friend but the only app I could find to convert it properly was HDTVtoMPEG2 but that required splitting up the files or it would crash if I tried to make them any larger than 1GB. Problem with that is that splitting the data ruins the audio sync and no amount of fiddling with Premier could get it back. :( I spent a week trying to fix those files and never really got them perfect. :/


Eventually found a torrent of those episodes so it's all gravy. :o

[FlamingGlory]

OH SNAP! You just made me realize that I can now DVR all the great shows on Adult Swim that I never catch anymore! Thanks!
Yeah, DVR is awesome for Adult Swim. I usually just record the entire sunday night block (all the new shows).

[theacoustician]

I spent a while trying to figure out how to access the raw data on the DVR's hard drive but no such luck. I did manage to capture via Firewire but so far the only app that'll grab it properly is CapDVHS; Premier will bluescreen. :confused: Anyways, I managed to capture a couple episodes of So You Think You Can Dance to edit and upload for a friend but the only app I could find to convert it properly was HDTVtoMPEG2 but that required splitting up the files or it would crash if I tried to make them any larger than 1GB. Problem with that is that splitting the data ruins the audio sync and no amount of fiddling with Premier could get it back. :( I spent a week trying to fix those files and never really got them perfect. :/


Eventually found a torrent of those episodes so it's all gravy. :oSomeone needs to spend more time at Doom9 forums

[April40]

We DVR:
Good Eats
30 minute meals
The Daily Show
Real World: Fresh Meat
Real World: Key West
The Messengers
How Drugs Became Illegal


I just want to say that Real World: Fresh Meat is not my doing.

[Ryokurin]

I spent a while trying to figure out how to access the raw data on the DVR's hard drive but no such luck. I did manage to capture via Firewire but so far the only app that'll grab it properly is CapDVHS; Premier will bluescreen. :confused: Anyways, I managed to capture a couple episodes of So You Think You Can Dance to edit and upload for a friend but the only app I could find to convert it properly was HDTVtoMPEG2 but that required splitting up the files or it would crash if I tried to make them any larger than 1GB. Problem with that is that splitting the data ruins the audio sync and no amount of fiddling with Premier could get it back. :( I spent a week trying to fix those files and never really got them perfect. :/


Eventually found a torrent of those episodes so it's all gravy. :o


hah. thats why I love my SageTV. plain vanilla mpeg files. Unless I go max quality I usually dont have to reencode them for DVD usage either.

[SemperFly]

Someone needs to spend more time at Doom9 forums
dude, I did. it's where I found the drivers for the box - though we have a dct3142 instead of the 6142...couldn't find drivers for the former but the ones for the latter allowed me to capture without a problem since there's supposedly onlt a slight difference 'tween the two.

Another problem is that capturing in ts wouldn't work due to copy protection so the files had to be saved as .mpgs, contrary to what this site (http://replayguide.sourceforge.net/dct6412/) says. In the end the raw video played beautifully in VLC but Premier wouldn't recognize the video file nor would any other app I tried to use to strip the commercials. Would have been nice if HDTVtoMPEG2 was able to encode files larger than a gigabyte but it was the splitting of the files that ruined the audio sync. Even after trying to fix it I lost nearly a good minute of audio between all the commercial cuts.

Help me A/V-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

[shawndavid]

I just want to say that Real World: Fresh Meat is not my doing.

I can see Zac the Legomaniac watching this in a french maid outfit and Puma suedes as he squeezes a large pastry bag filled with honey butter in flower-shaped dollops onto freshly prepared croissants.

[fly]

Help me A/V-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[ChikkenNoodul]

All that's on there now is:

4 million episodes of Little House On the Prairie (Mrs. Chikken)
A bunch of Deep Sea Detectives
Some Farscape episodes

[theacoustician]

dude, I did. it's where I found the drivers for the box - though we have a dct3142 instead of the 6142...couldn't find drivers for the former but the ones for the latter allowed me to capture without a problem since there's supposedly onlt a slight difference 'tween the two.

Another problem is that capturing in ts wouldn't work due to copy protection so the files had to be saved as .mpgs, contrary to what this site (http://replayguide.sourceforge.net/dct6412/) says. In the end the raw video played beautifully in VLC but Premier wouldn't recognize the video file nor would any other app I tried to use to strip the commercials. Would have been nice if HDTVtoMPEG2 was able to encode files larger than a gigabyte but it was the splitting of the files that ruined the audio sync. Even after trying to fix it I lost nearly a good minute of audio between all the commercial cuts.

Help me A/V-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
1. This isn't trying to be anal, but you aren't re-encoding a thing when you move from a ts file to a mpeg file. A ts stream is just a packetized mpeg (in the US, that almost always means its MPEG2). I know that may sound petty, but getting little things like this wrong completely negates any chance of understanding other weirdness you have to go through to make this shit work. It does for me at least.

2. If you had a hard limit of 1GB, it sounds like you didn't properly set the MaxFileSize flag. 1 GB happens to be the default setting.

3. If you want to trim up ts files, try this http://jonkers.net.au/index_files/freewaresoftware.htm

4. So You Think You Can Dance? WTF is wrong with you?

Other than that, its hard to trace your sync problem without more info.

[wanko80]

4. So You Think You Can Dance? WTF is wrong with you?

That's all you really needed to say.

[BeerAd]

I can see Zac the Legomaniac watching this in a french maid outfit and Puma suedes as he squeezes a large pastry bag filled with honey butter in flower-shaped dollops onto freshly prepared croissants.

You can see it any time you want, its on your DVR

[eileenbunny]

Recently our satellite boxes started dying. One by one they have cooked themselves. Consequently we have very little DVR'd. A couple of So You Think You Can Dance episodes, some Good Eats, and some Saved episodes.

[theacoustician]

Recently our satellite boxes started dying. One by one they have cooked themselves. Consequently we have very little DVR'd. A couple of So You Think You Can Dance episodes, some Good Eats, and some Saved episodes.
Wild guess : you keep your equipment in some form of entertainment cabinetry or have other things stacked on top of your cable box, correct?

[eileenbunny]

Wild guess : you keep your equipment in some form of entertainment cabinetry or have other things stacked on top of your cable box, correct?

Good guess, but incorrect. Well, not entirely. The bedroom one sits on top of a dresser with nothing on it. The loft one sits on top of the TV. The living room one does sit in our entertainment center, which is very open. It has about a foot on either side of it, nothing above it, and the entertainment center does not have doors on it. We are not electronics murderers. These things are committing suicide.

[theacoustician]

Good guess, but incorrect. Well, not entirely. The bedroom one sits on top of a dresser with nothing on it. The loft one sits on top of the TV. The living room one does sit in our entertainment center, which is very open. It has about a foot on either side of it, nothing above it, and the entertainment center does not have doors on it. We are not electronics murderers. These things are committing suicide.
Model of the box?

[Thorn Bird]

wow. y'all are all fancy. we have basic cable and a vcr.

[Sarcasmo]

wow. y'all are all fancy. we have basic cable and a vcr.


I have basic and a DVD player. I'll be damned if I'm giving some half-assed corporations more of my money for some half-assed programming.

I'd rather just masturbate and play BF2.

[wanko80]

I'd rather just masturbate and play BF2.
At the same time? Now that is talent.

[BeerAd]

I have basic and a DVD player. I'll be damned if I'm giving some half-assed corporations more of my money for some half-assed programming.

I'd rather just masturbate and play BF2.

Time????









not bf2

[April40]

I'd rather just masturbate and play BF2.


That and watching 24 totals up my life.

[SemperFly]

1. This isn't trying to be anal, but you aren't re-encoding a thing when you move from a ts file to a mpeg file. A ts stream is just a packetized mpeg (in the US, that almost always means its MPEG2). I know that may sound petty, but getting little things like this wrong completely negates any chance of understanding other weirdness you have to go through to make this shit work. It does for me at least.

2. If you had a hard limit of 1GB, it sounds like you didn't properly set the MaxFileSize flag. 1 GB happens to be the default setting.

3. If you want to trim up ts files, try this http://jonkers.net.au/index_files/freewaresoftware.htm

4. So You Think You Can Dance? WTF is wrong with you?

Other than that, its hard to trace your sync problem without more info.
1. I really have no idea what I'm doing. :p For some reason using CapDVHS if I capture with a .ts filename the data is corrupt. I figured it was due to the copy protection; I checked the box settings and it is enabled. However if I simply tell the app to capture with a .mpg filename everything's kosher. I have no idea why.

2. HDTVtoMPEG2, the app recommended by that link, allowed me to change the size of the clips but if I made them any more than 1024mb it would crash around 1048. I don't know what else I would have to change.

3. :heart:

4. Fuck you, it's a good show. :lol: In the past year I took a dance classes and got friendly with a couple of dancers and I'm currently hitting on another. :p It's a great conversation starter with fanatics of the show...besides, I really was capping those for a friend that went on vacation. :p

[eileenbunny]

Model of the box?

I briefly thought about looking at it and seeing, but then I decided I'm too lazy. It's whatever dvr/receivers Dish Network is using. The pictures on their website don't look like what we have though.

[eileenbunny]

Oh, and So You Think You Can Dance rocks.

[bast_imret]

That and spelunking in Flys colon totals up my life.

fixt

[Thorn Bird]

I have basic and a DVD player. I'll be damned if I'm giving some half-assed corporations more of my money for some half-assed programming.

I'd rather just masturbate and play BF2.


oh, we have a dvd player, but we can't record on that (that i know of, but i'm an idiot.)

[Sarcasmo]

At the same time? Now that is talent.


Gives 'arty' a whole new meaning.

[theacoustician]

I briefly thought about looking at it and seeing, but then I decided I'm too lazy. It's whatever dvr/receivers Dish Network is using. The pictures on their website don't look like what we have though.
If its the DISH 921, then God help you.

[April40]

fixt

Gosh didn't want to state the obvious. :fly:

[elpmis]

LAZYTOWN

[eileenbunny]

If its the DISH 921, then God help you.

Meh, if they need to be replaced every two years and it's free, it's not really hurting us. I have no real complaints with our satellite service. It was better than the alternative and it is rare that it gets all wonky due to weather. If I lose some DVR'd programs in the transaction it's no real loss either. I watch too much TV anyway.

[bast_imret]

LAZYTOWN

http://uselessforums.com/files/120505/lewls.jpg

[theacoustician]

Meh, if they need to be replaced every two years and it's free, it's not really hurting us. I have no real complaints with our satellite service. It was better than the alternative and it is rare that it gets all wonky due to weather. If I lose some DVR'd programs in the transaction it's no real loss either. I watch too much TV anyway.
I'm just saying that box (the 921) is a nightmare. If that's what you have, demand a new one, stat. For a while, I know Dish was swapping 921's for 942's for free. I'm sure you could sweet talk them into doing it even now.

[elpmis]

I'm just saying that box (the 921) is a nightmare. If that's what you have, demand a new one, stat. For a while, I know Dish was swapping 921's for 942's for free. I'm sure you could sweet talk them into doing it even now.
it's okay, theac, let her go

[elpmis]

[IMG]http://uselessforums.com/files/120505/lewls.jpg[IMG]
again, so awesome

[theacoustician]

it's okay, theac, let her go
:confused:

[eileenbunny]

I'm just saying that box (the 921) is a nightmare. If that's what you have, demand a new one, stat. For a while, I know Dish was swapping 921's for 942's for free. I'm sure you could sweet talk them into doing it even now.

My jaw is getting really sore from all the "sweet talking" I have to do :(

[theacoustician]

My jaw is getting really sore from all the "sweet talking" I have to do :(
I really wanted to do some crass sore jaw joke here, but you're cool and can't bring myself to do it.

[eileenbunny]

I really wanted to do some crass sore jaw joke here, but you're cool and can't bring myself to do it.

You're too nice. It wouldn't stop a lot of other people around here. I think the joke was implied anyway.

[FlamingGlory]

wow. y'all are all fancy. we have basic cable and a vcr.
Basic cable here comes with a DVR box thingy.

[fly]

LAZYTOWN
:lol:

[theacoustician]

Basic cable here comes with a DVR box thingy.
Basic analog cable or basic digital cable?

[FlamingGlory]

Basic analog cable or basic digital cable?
I don't think analog cable is even an option here...

ETA: Yes it is... :lol:

There are only 10 channels on it :-O

[fly]

I don't think analog cable is even an option here...

ETA: Yes it is... :lol:

There are only 10 channels on it :-O
wtf

[FlamingGlory]

wtf
No shens (I didnt count though, looks like 16)

2 Public Access
3 WSTM-3 (Syracuse, NBC)
4 WSPX-56 (Syracuse, Paxson Communications)
5 WTVH-5 (Syracuse, CBS)
6 WNYS-43 (Syracuse, WB)
7 WSYT-68 (Syracuse, FOX)
8 WSYR-9 (ABC Syracuse)
10 News 10 Now
11 WCNY-24 (Syracuse, PBS)
12 TBS
13 WSTQ (Syracuse, UPN)
14 WIVT-34 (Binghamton, ABC)
15 C-SPAN 2
16 C-SPAN
17 TV Guide Channel

[theacoustician]

wtf
Analog is a bandwidth hog and much more difficult to maintain over digital. Digital cable also has the advantage that most people need a set to box to view it, giving the cable company additional revenue off leasing boxes. It also has this nasty habit of carrying encryption (like 5C) and making recording or viewing it in any way but what the cable companies allow next to impossible.

[SemperFly]

Analog is a bandwidth hog and much more difficult to maintain over digital. Digital cable also has the advantage that most people need a set to box to view it, giving the cable company additional revenue off leasing boxes. It also has this nasty habit of carrying encryption (like 5C) and making recording or viewing it in any way but what the cable companies allow next to impossible.
That 5C encryption is what our DCT6142 uses. :(

[theacoustician]

That 5C encryption is what our DCT6142 uses. :(
The only way to get around it is to build or buy an AVX1. www.169time.com

They're a little sketchy as to what it does, but it looks like it pretends to be a 5C compliant device, then strips the flag out as it passes it downstream.

[SemperFly]

The only way to get around it is to build or buy an AVX1. www.169time.com

They're a little sketchy as to what it does, but it looks like it pretends to be a 5C compliant device, then strips the flag out as it passes it downstream.
but as I said before, if I saved the file as a .mpg instead of .ts it would play beautifully :( I'm confoozled

[theacoustician]

but as I said before, if I saved the file as a .mpg instead of .ts it would play beautifully :( I'm confoozled
It would play because the placement of the flag is random. If you watched the clip long enough, it would cut off or crash when it hit one.

[elpmis]

:confused:
if she's happy with a shitty box, she's happy with a shitty box, etc

[SemperFly]

It would play because the placement of the flag is random. If you watched the clip long enough, it would cut off or crash when it hit one.
:confused: i watched both episodes the whole way through, played perfectly


I have no idea what I'm doing. :(

[theacoustician]

:confused: i watched both episodes the whole way through, played perfectly


I have no idea what I'm doing. :(
Then there was no 5C encryption on that channel (it can be implemented per channel and with several different levels of permission). You were probably missing something else somewhere, but its hard to say what without samples and error logs. Don't feel bad, man. Like I said before, unless you really understand this stuff at a granular level, its very easy to screw up. I do it a lot and still have encodes I can't figure out.

[SemperFly]

Then there was no 5C encryption on that channel (it can be implemented per channel and with several different levels of permission). You were probably missing something else somewhere, but its hard to say what without samples and error logs. Don't feel bad, man. Like I said before, unless you really understand this stuff at a granular level, its very easy to screw up. I do it a lot and still have encodes I can't figure out.
:heart:

I dunno, it was Fox so I figured it'd be on that channel. I went through the box's setup and information screens, said 5C was enabled.

Can you help me figure out how to do this stuff properly so I can save the shows I really like in acceptable sizes? :o Or would that be illegal? :egads:

[theacoustician]

:heart:

I dunno, it was Fox so I figured it'd be on that channel. I went through the box's setup and information screens, said 5C was enabled.

Can you help me figure out how to do this stuff properly so I can save the shows I really like in acceptable sizes? :o Or would that be illegal? :egads:
Sure. H264 FTW!

[shawndavid]

if she's happy with a shitty box, she's happy with a shitty box, etc

Nobody's happy with a shitty box. Not only does it smell bad, it's unhealthy.

Gentlemen, please wipe your mast before you cram it in her ass.

[SemperFly]

Sure. H264 FTW!
:confused: