Windows Media Center

oldgit · 30-12-2007, 02:29 PM

HI ALL
ITS NOTHING DO WITH OZ BUT CAN ANY ONE TELL ME HOW I CAN RECORD TV ON MY LAPTOP WITH MEDIA CENTER IN A FORMAT THAT I CAN THEN PUT ON A DVD AND PLAY ON MY TV?. I CAN ONLY GET IT TO DO IT AS A DVD DATA DISK WHICH WILL NOT PLAY ON MY TV. I HAVE DONE IT BEFORE BUT I CAN NOT REMEMBER HOW.

MANY THANK
SIMON

oldgit · 30-12-2007, 07:57 PM

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Sids Dad · 30-12-2007, 10:42 PM

Sorry oldgit I cannot tell you the answer but there are lots of web sites that will, what i will say though is, have you tried the new BBC i player? i tried it today and it's great, you can watch any BBC program for the last seven days. Use google and type in bbc iplayer and away you go. When I get to Oz at least we can watch decent programs as long as we get broadband.
Hope this is a bit of info/help

Aldo · 30-12-2007, 10:57 PM

Try this link
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dannyboy · 30-12-2007, 10:59 PM

Sids Dad

Sorry to disapoint - it doesn't work over here.... Iplayer doesn't work as it looks for a UK server to send the data to. As you are in Oz and the gateway has an Oz IP address (I don't know how this works but I know it does - I worked at C4 when they were creating 4oD).

Oldgit,

You need some capture software by the sound of it as Media centre isn't very good. Video Capture Software - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com - they are lots about. If you need to convert to DVD, they use something like DVD Shrink (to reduce the size to under 4.6 gb and then DVD Decypter to burn to the HDD) after doing that then you can burn to DVD...

Hope that helps - I'm no IT guru so please feell free to correct me if I'm wrong..

Dan

dwaldron · 30-12-2007, 11:00 PM

I just create a DVD with the audio_ts and video_ts folders and put an AVI in the video_ts folder and that works in my DVD player.

Aldo · 30-12-2007, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by dwaldron

I just create a DVD with the audio_ts and video_ts folders and put an AVI in the video_ts folder and that works in my DVD player.

do you do do this in MC ? i didnt think it created _ts files.
I use Fusion HDTV which give the option to save as mpeg format.

oldgit · 31-12-2007, 12:52 AM

CHEERS ANYWAY SIDS DAD

I MANAGED TO SORT IT OUT AT LAST ABOUT 11.30pm

dwaldron · 31-12-2007, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Aldo

do you do do this in MC ? i didnt think it created _ts files.
I use Fusion HDTV which give the option to save as mpeg format.

No I just do it in my CD burning program, I just create the folder and I dump the AVI in there and that's it.

I think that MPG is fine to do it that way also, it's so much easier but as I understand it it only works with very new DVD players so give it a go, it certainly works with my 6 month old $100 LG DVD player.

Sids Dad · 31-12-2007, 06:25 PM

Aw God! I never thought that I will be going through an Oz server, just didn't click with me! tell me anyone, if I take a bunch of DVD's with me with the intention of playing them through a PC which we could connect to the TV will they work?
Why is everything so bloody complicated!!