Losing cat is losing.

[cyrano]

Apparently, I cannot fit a copy of Cast a Deadly Spell onto a single DVD if I saved it at high quality. Don't ask me how the DVD companies all do it and then include 73 hours of special features because I couldn't tell you.

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[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Um. My process was (a) make TiVo watch the movie on the VHS player and (b) get up this morning and try to use the TiVo burn function. I'm what you might call lo-tek and was only able to accomplish step (a) with help from the housemate. (:
Given that it was a VHS recording, I don't think there are any language tracks to drop... I guess I'm buying a few Dual Layer discs!

[evilmagnus]

Holy granola!

So what you've got there, chief, is likely a very messy, very large mpeg2 file. All hope is lost; the Elves diminish, and go into the West.

There are Ways to get stuff off VHS and onto DVD, but it should involve some post-capture steps and not involve a TiVO.

I would ... do VHS to a raw (uncompressed) AVI file, via a tv capture device (either a PC card or a usb thingie), then do some post- cleanup and compress it with something sane - mp4 or Xvid or something. But these are not neophyte ways, and I don't have a capture card. ;-p The end result, though, would be something that would fit on a single layer DVD - and probably look closer to the VHS that the Tivo migration version does.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Alas!
I know Tersa got the Star Wars VHS tapes onto DVD using this method, but she may not have gone for High Quality. I'll dial it back to Basic and see if that is acceptable to the TiVo gods.