Thread: Switch DVR to hard drive or DVD?

Hello.

Can anyone tell me how toreassign something from a DVR as TiVo or Dish to on my Mac or PC harddrive and then apply the computer's DVD burner to burn it to a disk?

You require a instrument to take the signal to your computer. There are various brands out there. with mine, I can bring VCR, audio or a digital signal and shift it to my hard drive through iMovie then to iDVD to burn. the mac does work great. I can even apply Toast to burn as well.

You should have few form of out from the DVR thus you'll require this AVI device to acquire it into your computer--it's a piece of hardware, a small black box in my case and it works all right. I can dis-remember the perfect name--I'm not at home. if you seem about, you can detect these things---I believe el gato produces something also.
hope this assists...

Hi Michael;

Like with anything technology based, there are a number of different ways to do the same thing. But there are a number of questions that have to be answered first.

1: What DVR is this question in reference to? As your solutions might vary depending upon which DVR you have.
I'm not comrade with everything the different models and brands of DVRs in the market; I'm just familiar with TiVo ( series 1 and series 2 ). With an un-altered ( un-hacked TiVo unit, and without the TiVo to Go option installed ) the just way to transfer data from the TiVo unit to a PC or VCR was to link to the A/V output with the TiVo unit and have the VCR(PC) record the play rear of the displays you expect to save ( analog transfer ). With the novel service from TiVo, TiVo to Go available to Series 2 machines; you will have an option to do a digital transfer of your archived displays directly to your PC, but you will however require additional software to convince the Tivo files to quality DVD format.

2: I experience that this is a MAC related forum; but do you have both systems, PC and MAC? What are the specifications for both systems? For the PC slope, your system will require to be well beefy to manage the data stream and the data encoding to DVD format?

3: Do you care what the video quality is once the completed program is burned to a DVD? Because there is basically 2 dis-similar ways to transfer the video to your computer: either analog or by digital.
Analog Transfer would need you to link the DVR A/V outputs some how to your computer. Only the transferring of the DVR output will plus noise to the data that evidently reaches the computers hard drive. This is why the VCR copy of a copy of a copy of a copy has remarkable worse picture and sound quality like the original copy. This signal loss doesn't happen with a pure digital to digital copy
Digital transfer would need that you somehow link your DVR using either USB or Ethernet and uploading the DVR data to your computer.

I have a Digital Video Recorder. I have desk top. I do this all the time. I have a Digital Camera that I edit what I expect from the DVR. I link the AV output jacks (RCA)with the DVR to my camera. I then download to the PC. It uses a much more of memory. I frequent transfer movies and prints to an external HD or a CD

I experience this is an old post and i may be behind the power curve but isn't the AV an output only? how do you bring the information off the HDD of a DVD recorder and send it to the PC with a digital camcorder? thanks if you could explain this.

NOT in the Mac forum though. That said, why not only link the output of the DVR, S-Video, Composite, (or whatever input your camera will accept). Begin the Record characteristic with the camera and the play characteristic with the DVR. If you camera cannot record video from an external source, then it's Game Over for you with this method.

You require a instrument to take the signal to your computer. There are various brands out there. with mine, I can bring VCR, audio or a digital signal and shift it to my hard drive through iMovie then to iDVD to burn. the mac does work great. I can even apply Toast to burn as well.

You should have few form of out from the DVR thus you'll require this AVI device to acquire it into your computer--it's a piece of hardware, a small black box in my case and it works all right. I can dis-remember the perfect name--I'm not at home. if you seem about, you can detect these things---I believe el gato produces something also.
hope this assists...

There is a way, but to do it right you require either/or the following items:

1: a good CD R / RW for CD's; or
2: a good DVD R/RW for DVD's.

NOTE: the most recent DVD R/RW units will even let CD R/RW facilities as well.

I even recommend the use of a good CD/DVD program such as Nero - I use Nero 6 and hold it up to date. Basically then, whatever package system your supplier recommends, stick with it and hold it updated.

Like I said, I use a DVD system, and regularly rear up sections of my hard drives only in case.
on regard to the two types of format you are expecting, I am not certainly if Nero would accommodate them; still I'm certainly you can download "shareware" or "attempt-before-you-purchase" types of software for these types of programs. Remember though, keep to the original writing or rewriting program producing novel backup disks for that program.

Please note though, the over just applies to copies from the original disk to the hard drive. Nero even has a facility to copy disk-to-disk. I do not experience if it would copy these formats - while you'll quickly detect out. If it won't. produce a novel folder with you're hard drive of the similar name like the disk, transfer the contents of the disk to the hard drive, then apply an auto run program . I have the full version, either will allow you to create auto run programs and files on other systems. Needless to say, I detect it extremely useful.

Have you also read everything the last posts earlier you typed up your message? Not that i'm attempting to be mean or anything, but it has nothing to do with anything anyone is talking about in this thread.. nor do you make any sense

I'm interested in transferring video files from my DVR (a Motorola DCT 6412 III) to an external hard drive. The DVR has two USB 2.0 ports and one Ethernet port, but when I link either one to my Mac the DVR doesn't display up in the Finder. Is there something special that I require to do to detect the DVR's hard drive? I'm running OS X 10.5.4 on a MacBook. I don't experience much about networking, thus I might require this in well basic terms. Thanks!