Burning DVDs from ABC

[peter x]

Hi all

has anyone have any clue as to what ABC are doing.... I have burnt DVD's off ch 10 with no problems, with playing on another machine on windows media player.

But tried the same thing for some ABC shows, and the image on the second m/c is faster, and the souund track is distorted, and it crashes after a few minutes.

Are they transmitting any DRM protection, or is there a codec that I need. The files work when reloaded on the media centre thru the MCE My Video option..... so I would think that it is something missing off the second m/c.

I am burning off MCE using the data DVD option........ and how can you increase those options to include video DVD, or is that a function of the media that is used... using DVD+RW disks

thanks guys

have MCE with rollup 2 loaded and media player 11

[vbap]

You may need to install AC3Filter on your other machine...

I use the sonicencoders (google to find them) to burn DVDs - it's slow, but works OK directly from the MCE interface and I only need to burn a few kids' shows (from the ABC) every now and then...

Installing sonicencoder is what gives you the "Video DVD" option when burning in MCE.

[peter x]

Update

the AC3 loaded up well..... used the freeware from http://www.xpcodecpack.com/ and the MCE bastard files worked well.

But the sonicencoder did enable the DVD video option, but the burning of files did not work.
which encoders should I used the AC3 and the MPEG ones...
thoughts

[drbh3]

Originally Posted by peter x

Hi all

has anyone have any clue as to what ABC are doing.... I have burnt DVD's off ch 10 with no problems, with playing on another machine on windows media player.

But tried the same thing for some ABC shows, and the image on the second m/c is faster, and the souund track is distorted, and it crashes after a few minutes.

Are they transmitting any DRM protection, or is there a codec that I need. The files work when reloaded on the media centre thru the MCE My Video option..... so I would think that it is something missing off the second m/c.

I am burning off MCE using the data DVD option........ and how can you increase those options to include video DVD, or is that a function of the media that is used... using DVD+RW disks

thanks guys

have MCE with rollup 2 loaded and media player 11

I'm having a similar problem when I try to move recorded programs to an external drive. The playback is corrupted, Media Centre crashes occassionally or gives a Digital Media Rights error message. I am recording ABC and Channel 10 amongst others off foxtel. I am assuming that these guys have started broadcasting with DRM encoded. Does anyone know a way to get around this. I haven't got enough space on my primary drive to keep everything!

Thanks,
Richard