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Originally Posted by phuocle

Hi everyone,

So far I love Beyond TV... much better than GB PVR! But a really quick question and something that I've missed sorely from GB PVR is recording/converting HD programming to MPEG2.

Yes, I understand I'll lose the HD resolution, but to me that's not as important as being able to burn those programs to DVD for playback on my 50" plasma.

Please don't tell me I have to buy the new DVD Burning plug-in since I'm sure it'll convert it in order to burn to DVD (since it has to). I have a DVD authoring process and I like it... full control over my menu, etc. and it takes me no time to use it. Plus I don't want to spend the extra $30.

It seems that Beyond TV will record SD materials to MPEG2 straight, but I can't figure out how to do it with HD stuff. Thanks for the help!

Not really sure I understand what you are asking. BTV does not record anything...it is your capture device that does the recording...so you should be able to capture the same as you did with GBPVR.

If you are capturing HD as a tp or ts and want to convert that to compliant mpeg2 for DVD then I recommend a freeware app called HDTV2DVD. Just drop your ts or tp file in and it will create the video_ts folder and additionally a single mpeg2 file just in case you have authoring software you would rather use.

Another freeware app you should look at is HDTVtoMPEG2 which allows you to pick which stream to convert and has commercial detection.