I've spent several hours yesterday and today searching for the "how to" I need -- how to record a captured HDTV broadcast onto a DVD. I figured this would have been pioneered by someone, but I have yet to find the procedure for completing this task.
Along the way I've discovered that HDTV broadcasts are in a format called MPEG2-TS (transport stream) which differs from other MPEG2 files. Standard Myth tools such as nuvexport do not handle MPEG2-TS streams. Another wrinkle is that HDTV broadcasts are often 1920x1080i or 1280x720p, whereas the highest resolution allowed on a standard DVD is 720x480, so some resizing of the video will be necessary. Extra credit here for making an anamorphic DVD that retains the 16:9 format of the original broadcast. HDTV streams carry AC3 audio, but DVDs have either AC3 or MPEG audio, so it may be necessary to create a two-channel audio track for use on DVD-players without builtin AC3 decoding. I have found several Linux programs which can handle portions of the above, but nobody has yet created a set of instructions for how to use them to archive a broadcast to DVD. Did I miss the "Ultimate Guide to HDTV-DVD Recording" in my search? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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