Hey is anybody taping the Olympics? I just realized I probably should as they are pretty cool. But then I realized the program guide is quite vague. I really would have to myth all of it and wade thru it at some point, no?

Comments?

Thanks.

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I cleaned off all my watched programs and then set up my KM box to record all of the Olympics in high def. It is recording at about 6G/hr. so my 750G partition is filling fast!

A friend of mine knows the family of one of the Olympic swimmers. I'm going to try to make a BluRay disk of her swimming event from my KM recording. And a disk of the opening ceremonies, of course. Wish me luck...

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Are there Linux-based tools that can author Blu-Ray? Or are you going to have to use some off-topic OS to do it?

I recorded the opening ceremony and I think that was 40GB all by itself!

40GB?!? I got cheated! Mine is "only" 28GB! I wonder what they left out of mine? Did you record the NBC coverage, or another?

Yeah, I'll probably use a windoze tool for my Blue-Ray experiments, if I go that far. The funny thing is, I don't own a Blue-Ray player myself and I don't really have plans to buy one. Yet I have a Blue-Ray recorder in my main PC. Go figure.

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Hm, wonder why the difference in size? I recorded from NBC. I just checked and post-editing for commercials and "fluff" I'm at 23GB. So I'm not absolutely sure it was 40GB before, but it must have been at least in the 30s.

Now, I'm not sure if that recorded from my over-the-air tuner or from my QAM tuner, nor am I sure if that would result in a size difference (i.e. maybe Fios is re-compressing NBC's signal).

Liv2Cod & ceenvee703:

Have not tried it, but R5.5 comes with mkudfiso which makes a blu-ray compliant iso image. DVD+RW-tools should be able to burn it.

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Blu-ray-video-authoring-tools-28112.shtml

Why would you need that "other" OS?

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That's very cool, Mike. So far, my experiments have ended in utter failure. I've tried to edit the opening ceremony in Sony's Vegas Movie Studio Platinum edition and it's a piece of cr@p. It is a complete slug when it comes to editing a large file in MPEG2 format, it turns out.

I need tp produce two versions of this: one for DVD folks and another (perhaps) for the Blu-Ray crowd. So far, the DVD orders are outpacing the Blu-Ray version by about 10 to 0.

I know we have commercial cutting and no-loss transcoding from the MPEG2 stream. But what do we do for output to 720x480, preferably in anamorphic DVD format with a soundtrack that actually matches the video? (A common problem on my previous attempts to transcode HDTV to DVD.)

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