llkings Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 How to record and convert World Cup TV shows to iPod With the TV to iPod Video Transfer you may record TV shows as you watch TV. the TV to iPod Video Transfer encodes and compresses video data from TV tuner card to your iPod in real-time , so it makes it fast to record and transfer TV shows to iPod format. 1, Select and install a suitable TV Card including PCI Card and USB external card, which is a huge computing job. We recommend using a TV tuner card with a hardware encoder. 2, Connect the Cable or Antenna. 3, Download TV to iPod Video Transfer and install it on your PC. 4, Launch it, and you'll see a welcome dialog as below. Click "Next" button in the welcome dialog to continue. 5, In the "Channel Manager" dialog select a TV tuner input source and click the "Auto Search" button. 6, Once you click the "Auto Search" button, the software starts searching TV channels automatically and forms a channel list in numerical order. When channel searching is finished, you may select a channel from the channel list and watch TV on PC. 7, While you are watching TV on PC, you may manage the shows easily using the control panel on the right. To record the TV shows into a video file, click the "Start" button. The video file is automatically saved as a file directed by the "Save as" blank. You may also "Browse" to change the directory. 8, To make recording settings, click the "Setting" button to call up the "Settings" dialog. The "Video" item is for setting video properties. Ordinary users may just leave the settings as defaulted while veterans may make more customized adjustments. Then click "OK" to start recording. 9, Setting dialog. 10, Click the "Schedule" button to call up the "Schedule" dialog. Using the scheduler, you may record an upcoming program or let the software do recording unattended. 11, When you want to finish recording, just click the "Stop" button. Go to the directory shown by the "Save as" blank, put it in your iPod, and enjoy it in your car. Recommended TV Tuner cards: TV tuner cards with hardware encoding do all the "heavy-lifting" required to record and watch TV which allows your processor to do other things. For this reason, we recommends TV tuner cards with hardware encoding: Adaptec AVC-3610 Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (USB 2.0) Adaptec VideOh! Media Center (PCI) Adaptec's USB 2.0 Dual TV Tuner (AVC-3610) ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (USB 2.0) ADSTech InstantTV Deluxe (PCI) ATI eHome Wonder ATI TV Wonder Elite AverMedia m150 Avermedia m175 Diamond XtremeTV PVR550 (PCI) Diamond XtremeTV PVR600 (USB) Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 (more information) Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250BTV Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500MCE Hauppauge WinTV-PVR USB2 NVIDIA? DualTV MCE tuner PixelView PlayTV P7000 Plextor PX-TV402U / PXM402U Prolink Pixelview PlayTV HD Tuners based on the ATI Theater 550 chipset, including: ATI Theater 550 Pro Sapphire Theatrix others by GeCube, Gigabyte, MSI, Tul, and Yuan Other models by ATI or Sapphire may use the same chipset as well Yuan MPG-600 Yuan MPG-843 Yuan PG-600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schentler Posted June 28, 2006 Share Posted June 28, 2006 I am currently recording using windows media center ... the files of the world cup games are about 2 GB each :( does anyone know how to convert them to WMV files? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selecta Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 Take something like Nero Recode or AutoGK or VirtualDub, should get the job done quickly and efficent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asdfoi83wyrl Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 I thought Nero Recode only did .mp4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selecta Posted July 1, 2006 Share Posted July 1, 2006 It does, but i think, mp4 would be the better format for tv-shows which should have a good quality and a proper sound! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fAlCoNNiAn Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 I am currently recording using windows media center ... the files of the world cup games are about 2 GB each :( does anyone know how to convert them to WMV files? so am i, and there isnt any easy way to convery ms-dvr files to something usable. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NayNay Posted July 7, 2006 Share Posted July 7, 2006 I've been using this for many months and it works perfectly for converting ms-dvr files to either MPEG or WMV. http://thegreenbutton.com/files/15/dvrms/entry112402.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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