tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384103.post113291509885679550..comments2023-10-28T11:44:08.442-04:00Comments on G-town Love: Poor Mans TiVoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384103.post-1132932840578769112005-11-25T10:34:00.000-05:002005-11-25T10:34:00.000-05:00Some things to consider... make sure your TV card ...Some things to consider... make sure your TV card works on your funky Euro TV signals / resolutions... a lot of the cheap ones here just do NTCS. In college I had a couple of friends with TV tuner cards and I don't think they needed the cable box... the software with the card will allow you to change channels. Also you may want to check if the card actually does the encoding or if it uses your system. Last thing... If you play around with some settings on DVD shrink I think you can skip DVD decoder, dvd shrink should be able to rip the dvd on its own.Erickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15355633895765911782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6384103.post-1132915836032917852005-11-25T05:50:00.000-05:002005-11-25T05:50:00.000-05:00Okay - i've answered some of my own questions, i t...Okay - i've answered some of my own questions, i think:<BR/>"Connecting via your cable box - This is the easiest and cheapest - you need to run an aerial lead from the RF output socket of your cable box, to the input aerial socket on a standard PC TV card or USB TV adapter. This way, you can watch and record whatever channel the cable box is tuned into. You need to use the PC card's software to "tune in" to the TV channel that your cable box uses (the RF output channel)."<BR/><BR/>Secondly, DVD Decoder (which i currently use to unravel DVD's ontot my hard drive before using 'DVD Shrink' to re-encode them back onto Disc) created *.vob files:<BR/>" *.VOB (Video OBject) contains several streams multiplexed together: Video, Audio and Subtitles. Video is MPEG-2, audio can be AC-3, Linear PCM, Mpeg 2 multichannel or MPEG1 layer2 2 channel audio." <BR/>So, in theory, i can continue to use DVD Shrink...right?Andy the Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13870197445835246850noreply@blogger.com