How do I record games onto DVD?
 

I wasn't sure if i should put this in here or in film room, or possibly warpath cribs. If this is in the wrong place, could a mod please move it. Anyways, i was wondering if i wanted to record regular season games onto dvd, how would i do it, what equipment would i need, i.e. blank dvds, dvd recorder, etc.

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tv capture card (starting at $20-30)
dvd recorder + blank dvds (starting at $40-60 and $20 per 100)
massive massive hard drive + a decent cpu to speed up compression... some software packages will let you record straight to DVD, that takes some cpu etc to do in real time though. I've found the best way is to record to a hard drive and remove commercials/worthless crap (random announcer babbling etc) then compress it to a divx .avi file (HD quality at 350mb/hour... you could get up to 6 games on ONE dvd, but to play those back on a tv you'd need a tv out or a dvd player that'll play divx (which exist but aren't common))

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There is a Phillips DivX player on amazon.com. It's one of the top sellers, I HIGHLY suggest it. It will play anything you throw in it.

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Or you could get one of [url="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=category&id=pcmcat13900050019"]these[/url].

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Wow, those have really dropped in price! I might have to invest in that... It would be nice not to have to wait for encoding...

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wow, as low as 112$ and thats at best buy... if you can connect it to a computer or external hard drive that'd make it even better (since it probably only encodes to mpg video)

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Yeah, I mean maybe two games on a disc. But that's still good...

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the big thing about transfering is cutting out the commercials and downtime, dropping a full game from 3 1/2 hours to under 2 as well as compression... 6 games per DVD :)

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I was looking through a best buy catalog a few days ago and was kinda suprised at how cheap they've become too. Just a few months ago they were atleast double that price.

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That guy, in my advancing years, I'm looking for simple. Hahaha. I've been doing Family Guy eps by encoding and it just takes too long. I WOULD love to have all my games being very pristine copies though...

Decisions, decisions.

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damn that's really cheap

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I have the Panasonic DRM 80, can't recommend it enough. Superb for games, easy to edit down the game to an ad free/garbage free 2 hours or less.

I now have Tivo with HD and I'll be experimenting with Tivo to DVR for this season. :cool:

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well now that craps so cheap, everyone should be able to borrow copies of games this year/offseason... lets get it on :)

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I have this feeling that with all of us investing in technology, one way or another we will be able to "find a way" to make sure that anyone who wants a copy of a game can get one.

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my friend has a dvd rewriter on his computer. how does that tie in to copying the games to dvds? does it mean that all i have to do is get the games onto my computer, then i can just write them to a disc?

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[QUOTE=mooby]my friend has a dvd rewriter on his computer. how does that tie in to copying the games to dvds? does it mean that all i have to do is get the games onto my computer, then i can just write them to a disc?[/QUOTE]
With the help of some software, but pretty much thats the idea. I too have a dvd burner on my computer, and with the help of nero and windows movie maker it is pretty unlimited as to what you can do. It is like having a poor man's movie studio. I am sure that there is better out there but for the price I am well satisfied with the software...

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you need a tv capture card or other device (like tivo etc) that can record the game from your tv onto a hard drive/dvd/computer of some sort... then you can use movie maker or any of a VAST selection of software to edit out the parts that you don't need. Once that's done a trip through divx compression will shrink the file size by a truly insane amount, or you can burn it as an mpeg for maximum compatability.

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divx compression, is that like dvd shrink?

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i dont know anything about dvd shrink ;) divx is just a codec that uses a good amount of cpu to play back a really compressed form of video without noticeable loss in quality. The end effect (if your computer is at least 800-900mhz) is really tiny file sizes for high quality video (full uncompressed dvd type quality goes from about 4gb (mpeg) to about 650-700mb and looks exactly the same).