Cornell vs. Hahvahd, CSTV, and Tivo

[RedAR]

If anyone out there get's CSTV, and happens to have a Tivo, could they record the game tomorrow night?  It would be REALLY nice to convert the Lynah East game onto a high quality DVD for posterity sake...

I am volunteering to do the conversion if I could somehow get the files.

[gtsully]

I've already set my TiVo, but how would I send it to you?

[judy]

And don't forget CSTV Primetime that starts at 7:30. They usually end that with a preview of the upcoming game!

[gtsully]

Well, too late to set that, since I'm going straight from work to John Harvard's.  Oh well...

[RedAR]

How large would a 3 hour file be?  Do you have a DVD burner?  Where do you live?

I'm sure we can figure some way of transferring the file.

[gtsully]

RedAR wrote:

How large would a 3 hour file be?

No idea.  Keep in mind, I know nothing about all of this technological stuff.  I'm still excited because I have two VCR's hooked together that let me copy videos.

Do you have a DVD burner?

No - see above.

Where do you live?

Belmont, MA - a mile outside of Cambridge.

[gtsully]

RedAR wrote:

How large would a 3 hour file be?

No idea.  Keep in mind, I know nothing about all of this technological stuff.  I'm still excited that I have two VCR's hooked up together to let me copy videos.

Do you have a DVD burner?

No - see above.

Where do you live?

Belmont, MA - a mile outside of Cambridge.

[RedAR]

I am in Cambridge, so we could probably arrange for me stop by to somehow transfer the file (I have a 160GB external HD, which I am certain is enough capacity to hold the entire game).

Let's email after the game to see what can be done.

[RedAR]

Age, any pointers on transferring video files from Tivo to a Mac?

[CowbellGuy]

I usually just run S-Video and RCA audio out of the TiVo into a DV bridge straight into my mac and capture on-the-fly while it's playing. Extracting the files from the TiVo would require adding an ethernet card to the TiVo and doing some hacking, so that's probably not a good option. If you have a laptop with about 30G free and a Firewire (IEEE 1394) port, and a DV bridge, you could theoretically go over and capture in one shot. Though the prospect of a 3 hour capture on-the-fly without dropping frames or crashing seems daunting on a Windows machine. Only had trouble doing that once on a Mac. For the sake of thoroughness, to capture on-the-fly using Final Cut Pro (Capture Now), you can only do 30 minutes at a time in FCP 3. FCP 2 will go as as long as it can. You need to change the preferences in FCP 4 to do more than 30 minutes, which is the default setting. So, uhh, don't use version 3.

Another option would be to capture from the TiVo to a digital camcorder in 1-hour chunks, then dump that via Firewire to a computer and put it all together.

Unfortunately I have Dish Network and they still haven't picked up CSTV, so no, I don't have it :-/

[RedAR]

Thanks Age for your advice.

I just got myself a dual 2.0 G5, and though it's here primarily to run some simulations, I figure I can give it a "rest" one night and let it burn some DVD's.

I still do have my TiBook, so getting it over hopefully won't be too much of a problem.

Sully, can you email me, and perhaps we can work out some time when I might be able to copy from your Tivo?

[CowbellGuy]

Do you have a DV bridge? I used to have a Hollywood Dazzle, which I used for the last 2 DVDs, but the Formac one's a bit better. Hoping to get one of those soon.

EDIT: (and 25-30GB free on your laptop? If your external 160 is firewire, you may be pushing it doing DV capture and write to disk on the same 400MBps Firewire channel)



Post Edited (01-12-04 11:18)

[RedAR]

I do have a firewire pcmcia firewire card.  What is the bandwidth on the pcmcia slot?  Also, for the formac dv bridge, I wouldn't need the TVR version if I'm just doing a on-the-fly capture, right?

[CowbellGuy]

Except for the G5's which are now 800 Mbps (and the only 800's at this point that I know of) any IEEE-1394 is 400Mbps. That, of course is a theoretical upper limit. On top of that, you're dealing with the PCMCIA bus limitations, which might max out at less than that, but I'm not positive.

Now, you said you're using a TiBook, which has built-in Firewire. Are you suggesting using the built-in Firewire for the DV bridge and the PCMCIA card for the external drive? If that's the case, you should be ok. It might even work with just the built-in Firewire if the external drive has 2 firewire ports (TiVo->DV bridge->external drive->laptop), but I'm not sure.

[RedAR]

Yeah, I was thinking of connecting the DV bridge to the built-in firewire, and the external hd to the pcmcia slot.  I think that should do it (of course, I have to get the DV bridge).  The other hitch is if Sully will let me stop by to grab the video.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, some of the newer Powerbooks (aluminum) has Firewire 800 built-in.  That doesn't really help here, since I don't have a newer Powerbook.



Post Edited (01-12-04 13:51)