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Archiving from my HR20

post #1 of 4
1/26/07 at 10:50am
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I want to archive some concerts I have saved on my HR20. I have a Dell 9300 laptop with the external TV tuner. The only recording software I currently have is the full version of Nero. Does anyone know if I can stream the concerts into the TV tuner via the S-video input and use Nero to manipulate the archive?

If not, does anyone know of any software I can buy to utlilize the TV tuner I already have, or if it won't work could you recommend a good software/hardware package to use?

Also..I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but is there any way to record the actual HD signal and digital audio coming from the HR20?

Thanks for any help and I apologize in advance if I posted this in the wrong thread!
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post #2 of 4
1/26/07 at 3:20pm
If your "external tuner" has S-Video then yes, you can simply connect the relevant cables and use any video capture application (I'm sure nero has one).

Sounds like your tuner is a USB type with hardware mpeg2 (or maybe mpeg4?) encoder - it should have come with some basic software to record. I would suggest using that and then importing the clips into nero for making DVDs etc.

And no, you can't "record the actual HD signal", thank directv for not including firewire.
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post #3 of 4
1/26/07 at 4:05pm
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Thanks! Since I'm obviously new to the world of video recording...what's the big differences between mpeg2 and mpeg4 compression? In other words, if my external tuner only uses mpeg2 would I want to just step up and buy a hardware/software package that has mpeg4 capability?
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post #4 of 4
1/26/07 at 4:09pm
It would help if you actually mentioned what the tuner IS.
But by guessing that its USB external, that *probably * means it has to do compression on the video it captures. You shouldn't need to *buy* anything, the tuner should have come with a basic point and click recording application that you can easily use to capture what you want.
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