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Cavaliersin07

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Hello Buckeye fans! I am getting HD cable on Tuesday, along with a DVR. I am going to record every Buckeye basketball game, some of them in HD. I was just wondering how to take the video that I recorded and create a torrent with it. Any and all help is greatly appreciated! I look forward to bringing all buckeye fans all future basketball and football games.
 
1. record the game on your DVR using DVD-rw discs and format it to vr .
If you can copy direct to divx do that .
2. copy it to your hard drive to a file you want to make your default torrent input file. hopefully by now you will have a VOB, VOR, or Divx file.
3. download and install java and then download and install azureus.
4. follow the directions shown in the Media forum How to guide to make your torrent and upload it to the BP torrent threads
 
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BB, those sound like instructions for regular dvr & non-hd tv. Unless there are HD DVRs out there (that aren't astronomically expensive) which burn to regular dvds.
 
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DVR to me means one of the cable company, satellite or TiVO boxes - files stored on hard drive, often, these days in a custom file system with some form or other of encryption. HD-DVRs are around - sounds to me that like you are getting one of those.

Unless hacked (original TiVO only) you cannot get the files of those boxes - and believe me, folks have tried, there was a standing prize of $25K at WeakKnees to crack any of the newer DVRs. Nobody won it.

DVD recorders on the other hand can handle any standard TV feed - but like jwins says - you won't be able to get HD content onto the thing. (DVDs have an upper limit on resolution exceeded by HDTV).

HD-DVD burners aren't widely available beyond Toshiba models built into their PC platform - dual Blue-Ray / DVD burners can be had for under $400 - but only on PC. Never have seen one that low in a DVD Recorder box.
 
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MIssed the HD part , so I don't know if there is a difference or not. We haven't posted hardly anything regarding HD setup.
They will still need to get it in a file format that can be used by azureus and the DVr in question.
If there is a difference between Hd and "regular' and there is to be an editor invloved then it also must meet the same requisites.
The user manual will say which formats are available and he will have to check on the appropriate websites for formats.
Apparently we are going to be posting games in Vob , Vor, Divx ,and ISO
formats. and now HD. It is something we just have to look at as we get invloved with it. I don't think that any of us even have HD hardware.
Rocket or Sandgk would know more than I do about it.

So basically at this point I would say for Cavalier to read up and make his own progression in getting these uploaded, paying attention to what formats can be used at both ends.
 
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fwiw here are the formats that azureus will handle

We recommend uploading high quality, single-file videos from most digital cameras and camcorders in the following formats: MOV, MPEG, MPG, MP4, WMV, ASF, AVI, VOB, TS, ISO, DIVX, XVID and more. We prefer the h.264 video codec.
We recommend the following minimum data rates:
- SD Quality - 1.2 Mbps (640 x 480)
- HD Quality - 3.6 Mbps (1280 x 720)
- Full HD Quality - 8 Mbps (1920 x 1080)
 
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sandgk;1094136; said:
neomits did HD torrents and clips.

Took feed directly into his Media Center PC on an HD-PVR card.

Piped it out with compression to make videos that could be played on the PC, or, after user conversion to wmv format, on an X-Box 360 HD-DVD players.

The results were stunningly good.
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Can we state here then, Sandgk, that once converted to wmv format it could also be converted to divx or mpg or any other format?
 
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Replying to an earlier post, I will be getting Time Warner cable. I am not sure of the model of DVR i will be getting, but I will find out soon, because we get it installed on Tuesday. I will have to check out Azeurus to see how the uploading process works.
 
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If you're getting an HD DVR from the cable company I'm almost positive you won't be able to do anything with those recorded videos when it comes to making torrents. The cable companies use proprietary hardware and software and won't let you, without a good amount of hacking, rip and compress video off of their DVR. TimBUCK2 went to great lengths to hack his TiVO box to get us the DVD's we have today - and that's regular definition. HD video off of cable is encrypted 6 ways from Sunday in order to prevent us from doing exactly what we're doing now - redistributing their content without their permission. Neomits was able to capture HD games by recording whatever came over the air, unencrypted. Usually that amounts to slim pickins, with more and more games going on Big 10 network and ESPN (both of which are encrypted).

Everything you ever wanted to know about capturing HD video is on this forum: Capturing and Editing Video - Doom9's Forum

Doom9 forum members are as obsessed with video editing and compression as we are for our Buckeyes.
 
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Okay, I got my DVR today. It is model "Explorer 8300 HDC" by Scientific Atlanta. Hopefully some DVR gurus can help me out with transferring games from the DVR to my laptop. I'm going to record the Cavs game tonight, and try to transfer that to my laptop to see where I can get with it and learn about the DVR.
 
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