[vdr] Re: copy mpeg to optical storage

[Christian Berger <einStein@donau.de>]

Dan R schrieb:
> 
> I was interested in software that would copy an MPEG2-DVB broadcast that
> was saved onto a hard drive in a satellite box.  I want to record the saved
> broadcast show on optical storage and delete it from my satellite box.  I
> would also like to retain the ATSC soundtrack.
> I can play the MPEG2 file from the satellite box on my computer by using
> the S-VHS input on the video card (nvidia GeForce3 GTS) but all the
> software I can find wants to encode the signal as MPEG2 again.  Is there a
> capture program that just writes a currently playing file to disk?

Yes, every programm can do that, just start xawtv before starting VDR,
then quit xawtv and then use maybe nuppelvideo or something

> I'm new to all this (if you couldn't tell) and all I want to do is
> basically transfer a file from one box to another box. The problem is that
> my satellite box is mostly proprietary and doesn't have a well documented
> file structure (the satellite box is a Dish Network PVR-501, for the curious).

Well you can simply burn the .vdr files onto a CDR and move them from
machine to machine. Well the files actually are all normal MPEG2 files,
every programm should be able to read them.
 
> Thanks for you time and input.  :^)


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