digital pimpage
for my birthday the other week, robyn got me an ipod (after some return business with amazon, a 5th gen video ipod). this has rejuvenated my unhealthy appetite for digital video encoding and things of that nature, which i was quite obsessed with about four years ago. if you look at my livejournal user info, which hasn't been updated in about that long, you can see a couple of references to that.
after some research on the internet and the purchase of a firewire cable, i've found that i can connect our comcast DVR to robyn's ibook and digitally record video from the DVR to the mac. i can then transfer the video file (which is an MPEG-2 transfer stream for the curious) to my PC, where i should be able to encode it to divx/xvid, encode it to a format compatible with the ipod, or perhaps burn it to DVD. i haven't figured out how to do that yet, as i wasn't sure i could get the shows off the DVR.
i'm now recording that south park from a couple months ago where chef dies.
after some research on the internet and the purchase of a firewire cable, i've found that i can connect our comcast DVR to robyn's ibook and digitally record video from the DVR to the mac. i can then transfer the video file (which is an MPEG-2 transfer stream for the curious) to my PC, where i should be able to encode it to divx/xvid, encode it to a format compatible with the ipod, or perhaps burn it to DVD. i haven't figured out how to do that yet, as i wasn't sure i could get the shows off the DVR.
i'm now recording that south park from a couple months ago where chef dies.