Required software:
TsMuxeR (Freeware)
ImgBurn (freeware)

First off, let’s have a brief understanding of TsMuxer supported codecs and formats. If your video files are not in the following category, you may need a Video Converter tool to do format conversion in advance.

Supported videocodecs:
* H.264
* Microsoft VC-1;
* MPEG-2.

Supported audiocodecs:
* AAC;
* AC3 / E-AC3 (DD+);
* Dolby True HD (for streams with AC3 core only);
* DTS/ DTS-HD;
* LPCM.

Supported subtitle types:
* M2TS Presentation graphic stream.
* SRT text subtitles

Supported containers and formats:
* Elementary stream;
* Transport stream TS and M2TS;
* Program stream EVO/VOB/MPG;
* Matroska MKV/MKA;
* MP4/MOV

Part 1: Use tsMuxeR to author a Blu-ray disc
Perform the following steps:
Step 1: Open a video file using the “Add” button
Step 2: Observe the track info for AVC profile information. If it shows a value higher than 4.1, then use the “Change level” function to adjust it down to 4.1
Step 3: Choose “Blu-ray disk” as Output
Step 4: Click “Browse” button to choose location path for the output file
Step 5: Click “Start muxing” to begin

When Blu-ray authoring task is done, click “Browse” button to get the output files. You will see a Blu-ray structure folder as below, which is ready for Blu-ray burning.

Part 2: Burning the contents to Blu-ray disc with ImgBurn
This part is the same as Solution 3, so just go back to check it.

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What you will need:
Pavtube Tivo to Video Converter for Galaxy Tab
Step-by-step guide for transfer TiVo TV shows to Galaxy Tab 2 for playback
Step 1: Transfer TiVo TV shows from TiVo to your computer via TiVo Desktop Software

Install TiVo Desktop software. Connect TiVo to your home network, and then the TiVo Desktop will provide you with a list of shows for transferring to your PC. Then please transfer the TiVo TV shows you want to PC.
Step 2: Download, install and run Pavtube Galaxy Tab TiVo to Video Converter
Once run it, click “Add” button to load TiVo files which you wanna play on Galaxy Tab. The Program supports batch conversion, so you can add multiple TiVo Recording of TV shows into it to convert at a time. If you wanna combine several TiVo files into a single file, you can click tick off the checkbox “Merge into one file” to realize the goal.

Step 2: Select output format for Galaxy Tab
To put and play Tivo on galaxy tab, you just need convert your incompatible TiVo recording to an AVI format that is encoded with Galaxy Tab supported video and audio codecs, like MP3, AAC, DivX, XviD, MPEG4, H.263, and H.264. Click on the dropdown menu of “Format”, and then choose a format from the output format menu. We pick “DivX AVI – Audio Video Interleaved (DivX) (*.avi) ” for instance.

Step 3: Adjust video and audio parameters
Pavtube galaxy tab TiVo to video converter allows users clicking “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters, so as to customize the final output file quality for Galaxy Tab 10.1. The adjustable options include codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel.

Step 4: Create Samsung Galaxy Tab Tivo video
Once the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click “Convert” button to create Samsung Galaxy Tab TiVo video. When conversion is completed, you can click “Open” button to get the final output AVI files for your Galaxy Tab. Just transfer AVI files directly to the memory card, and now your Galaxy Tab is able to play TiVo Recordings of TV Shows without any troubles. Hope this helps.

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Software you’ll need:
TiVo Desktop for the PC (freeware)
Pavtube Video Converter (shareware, $35.00)
Windows DVD Maker (freeware)

Part 1. Transfer TiVo recordings to PC with TiVo Desktop
If you record a show on your TiVo box, you can easily play it back on your PC or laptop. I believe it is an everyday thing for most TiVo users. And there are instructions by TiVo’s official site:
Transferring TiVo shows to your PC
Transfer times vary, but may be as long as the show’s duration to complete the transfer, so you have to be patient when the software is copying TiVo to PC.

Part 2. Convert TiVo to DVD Movie Maker compatible formats with Pavtube Video Converter.
The Pavtube Video Converter is much more than a TiVo to DVD Converter. It converts TiVo shows to iPod, iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPad, PSP, Gphone, Droid, Nokia, Samsung smart phones, Zune, Xbox, PS3 and media formats like *.avi, *.mpg, *.vob, *.mkv, *.wmv, *.dv, *.mov, *.mp3, *.m4a, *.wav, *.ogg, *.ac3, etc and handles with TV recordings of other formats *.ts, *.tp, *.trp files. When converting TiVo with Pavtube Video Converter, there are multiple choices. To retain original HD quality, you can ‘Directly Copy’ TiVo shows to MPEG/MPEG-TS files; to save storage, you can shrink the TiVo recordings by choosing a common SD video format; to burn CD album, you can extract audios from TiVo files; to cut the commercials, you can ‘trim’ the ads out; to eliminate the black edges, you can ‘crop’ the image and remain the part you like. Feel like giving it a shoot with the trial version of Pavtube Video Converter? Now let’s focus on the process of converting TiVo to DVD. By the way, the trial version gives videos with a ‘Pavtube’ logo on the screen.

You can clone TiVo to DVD as simple or as complex as you want.
Step 1. Input Media Access Key.
Launch Pavtube Video Converter, Click on the “Option” button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media Access Key. Click “OK” to confirm.

Step 2: Import TiVo files for copying TiVo to DVD.
Now click “Add” to import all .tivo files, or you may drag and drop the *.tivo files to the window of TiVo to DVD Converter.

Step 3: Select an output format for burning TiVo shows to DVD in Windows DVD Maker.
Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format. If you do not want to loss any quality, please select Copy-> Directly Copy so that the TiVo Converter will decrypt the shows to *.mpg or *.ts files. Nowadays the shows are normally HD 1920*1080 videos, which is too good to burn on a standard DVD. My advice is, compressing the HD TiVo shows so as to fit DVD 5/ DVD 9.

As I will copy TiVo to DVD with Windows DVD Maker, let’s take a look at the types of files which can be burned with Windows DVD Maker:

• Video files: *.asf, *.avi, *.dvr-ms, *.m1v, *.mp2v, *.mpe, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mpv2, *.wm, and *.wmv.
• Audio files: *.aif, *.aifc, *.aiff, *.asf, *.au, *.mp2, *.mp3, *.mpa, *.snd, *.wav, and *.wma.
• Picture files: *.bmp, *.dib, *.emf, *.gif, *.jfif, *.jpe, *.jpeg, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, *.tiff, and *.wmf.

I used to select Common Video-> MPEG-2 Video(*.mpg), and then click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters. The following picture shows detailed settings:

You may change the video “Size” to 960*540 provided that your source video is 16:9 and you don’t want outstretched image. If you’d like to keep Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, you got to change the Audio Codec to “ac3” and Channels to “5.1 Channels”. Other optional formats are *.asf, *.avi, *.wmv. The TiVo Converter displays the estimated file size and other information in the textbox. If you find the file size very huge, just set a smaller value in Video Bitrate box.

Step 4: Start converting TiVo for burning DVD.
Click “Convert” button and the TiVo converter will generate videos that are compatible with Windows DVD Maker. After conversion you can click the “Open” button next to output path to find converted recordings.

Additional tips– edit the TiVo recordings to keep proper length and size.
As I said, you can make the TiVo to DVD conversion as simple or as complex as you want. To cut off black edges, trim out unwanted ads, add watermark, replace audio, you may click on “Edit” button to enter editing window of TiVo to DVD Converter.

I. Cut unwanted black edges
Switch to Crop tab to cut unwanted edges. You can crop the video by adjusting the crop frame (drag the green dotted green square frame to circle the part you want to retain) or setting values (Left, Top, Width and Height) of crop area.

II. Trim out bothering commercial ads
Under ‘Trim’ tab you are allowed to cut out unwanted part of selected clip. To trim the video, simply type in desired time value in ‘Start’ and ‘End’ box and click ‘Set’ button. Or you can click left square bracket and right square bracket to set start and end time when playing the video.

Part 3. Copying TiVo to DVD with Windows DVD Maker.
After conversion you can burn the converted videos with Windows DVD Maker now:
Step 1. Click the “Start” button and select “Windows DVD Maker“ to run the program, then click the “Add items” button from the top menu and browse to the folder were the movies you want to burn are located. By default, they should be found in the “Videos” folder.
Step 2. Select the videos you want to burn and type the “Disc title”. Also, you may select the order in which the movies will be saved on DVD. To do that, select a movie and press the “Up” or “Down” button to change its order.

Step 3. If you want to, you can click the “Options” button and set things like the burning speed, the aspect ratio, the video format or you can choose if the DVD will have a menu or not. After you finished making the settings you want, click the “OK” button and then “Next”.

Step 4. At this step you can create a custom DVD menu or you can select a predefined one. To select a predefined menu, scroll the “Menu Styles” list and select the one you like most. You can customize it by pressing the “Customize Menu” button and making the settings you want. Also, you can change the menu text by clicking the “Menu text” button and typing the text you want for each button.

Step 5. When you have finished making all the customizations, click the “Burn” button.
First, Windows DVD Maker will encode the movie in the appropriate format and then it will burn it on DVD. Usually, the encoding process takes much more time than the burning so you have to patient.

Files Types Supported By Windows DVD Maker
Let’s take a look at the types of files which can be burned with Windows DVD Maker:

• Video files: *.asf, *.avi, *.dvr-ms, *.m1v, *.mp2v, *.mpe, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mpv2, *.wm, and *.wmv.
• Audio files: *.aif, *.aifc, *.aiff, *.asf, *.au, *.mp2, *.mp3, *.mpa, *.snd, *.wav, and *.wma.
• Picture files: *.bmp, *.dib, *.emf, *.gif, *.jfif, *.jpe, *.jpeg, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, *.tiff, and *.wmf.

Convert HD MTS, TOD, MOV, MOD to be compatible with Windows DVD Maker
Among the versatile video converting tools on market, Pavtube HD Video Converter is a top one for you to convert HD footages taken with over majority cams at high quality. It also allows you to adjust the advanced parameters like bitrate, resolution, audio channels, etc. In the following guide I will show you how to convert HD footages to Windows DVD Maker supported formats with least quality loss.

Step 1. Getting started
Transfer the footages you’d like to edit from camcorder or memory card to PC. Install and launch Pavtube  HD Converter, click “Add” to load AVCHD MTS video clips, or directly drag the files into file list. By default, the files are selected. You could view the files in preview window, simply highlight the file and click play button.

Step 2. Adjusting audio and video settings
Click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Now that we are converting HD files (MTS, MOV, TOD) for burning with Windows DVD Maker, you may click on the format bar and follow HD Video->HD WMV/ AVI/ MPEG-2 and then customize the advanced video and audio parameters. Take HD WMV as example, for the users who are unwilling to degrade the HD video quality, a recommended configuration could be Video at 1280*720p (or 960*540), 12800kbps, 29.97fps, and set Audio at 48000 Hz, 256 kbps, 5.1 channels. The original footages you have taken may be a full HD 1920*1080, but as we are talking about burning DVD, it is not a best choice to maintain the original resolution, since the full HD video fits for blu-ray disc rather than standard DVD.

Step 3. Converting HD footages to WMV Windows DVD Maker supported formats
Click on “Convert” button and the Pavtube HD Video Converter will starts converting HD footages to compatible formats for Windows DVD Maker. You could set auto shutdown in progress window or leave it there and come back later.

Burn converted video clips with Windows DVD Maker
After conversion you can burn the converted videos with Windows DVD Maker now:
Step 1. Click the “Start” button and select “Windows DVD Maker“ to run the program, then click the “Add items” button from the top menu and browse to the folder were the movies you want to burn are located. By default, they should be found in the “Videos” folder.

Step 2. Select the videos you want to burn and type the “Disc title”. Also, you may select the order in which the movies will be saved on DVD. To do that, select a movie and press the “Up” or “Down” button to change its order.

Step 3. If you want to, you can click the “Options” button and set things like the burning speed, the aspect ratio, the video format or you can choose if the DVD will have a menu or not. After you finished making the settings you want, click the “OK” button and then “Next”.

Step 4. At this step you can create a custom DVD menu or you can select a predefined one. To select a predefined menu, scroll the “Menu Styles” list and select the one you like most. You can customize it by pressing the “Customize Menu” button and making the settings you want. Also, you can change the menu text by clicking the “Menu text” button and typing the text you want for each button.

Step 5. When you have finished making all the customizations, click the “Burn” button.

First, Windows DVD Maker will encode the movie in the appropriate format and then it will burn it on DVD. Usually, the encoding process takes much more time than the burning so you have to patient.

Now let’s focus on the conversion. Many video transcoding tools on market are able to convert HD videos, but Pavtube HD Converter for Mac must be our optimal choice for its considerate profile options and adjustable video and audio parameters (resolution, bitrate, framerate, audio channels etc) and flexible editing facilities (trim, crop, watermark, audio replace, etc). In the following guide I would like to share with you some tricks of converting Full HD video footages for iDVD authoring and burning.

Step through converting MTS, TOD, MOD to MP4,MOV,iDVD compatible MPG format:
Step one. Run Pavtube HD Converter for Mac. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the footages and load them to the converter.

Step two. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar and select Common Video->MPEG2 Video (*.mpg) in the pull-down list. You are not recommended to choose the HD formats, as I mentioned above, the Full HD is for blu-ray disc, not standard DVD.

Step three. Now you can further adjust the advanced video and audio parameters. Basically the footages are 1080p (1920*1080) or 720p (1280*720). If you would like to keep the original 16:9 aspect ratio (I believe you do, no one would prefer stretched image), make sure you set correct video size. Click the ‘Settings’ button to adjust the advance parameters. The following settings are for your reference.

Video: mpeg2video, 960*540p, 9800kbps, 29.97fps
Audio: mp2, 44.1khz, 128mbps, 6 channels

Step four. Click the ‘Browse’ button next to the Export to field and select a location on your HDD for the output video file.

Step five. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start converting HD videos  on Mac. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files.

Small Tips:

1. Preview the video- select it in file list and click ‘Preview’ button.
2. Thumbnail- click ‘Snapshoot’ button when previewing the video. Click ‘Option’ to set the image format of screenshots.
3. Deinterlace- click ‘Editor’, switch to ‘Effect’ tab, find ‘Deinterlacing’ box, and check it.
4. Combine files together- check the files to be merged in file list and check ‘Merge into one’ box beside ‘Settings’ button.

Note that trascoding will definitely degrade the video quality, this is inevitable. The quality loss is up to your settings when converting the footages. When authoring DVD, using the provided templates makes authoring quick and easy. See how to create DVD using iDVD.

The software I used is as below:
- Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripping  Software
- ReJig (freeware)
- ImgBurn (freeware)

Part 1: Rip and compress Blu-ray movie to DVD VOB files
Firstly, use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripping  Software to remove copy protections of Blu-ray movies, and meanwhile convert it to the DVD vob format.

1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripping  Software and click “BD Rom”  to load Blu-ray movies. Generally speaking, the file with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if you just need back up the main movie, tick off this one only.

Each file will be checked by default after imported, right click on any one of the files, and then there will be a popup window to let you uncheck all, just do it, and afterwards to tick off the checkbox before the file you need converted.

2. Click on the drop-down menus after “Subtitle” and “Audio” respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.

3. Select VOB as output format and specify destination folder
Click on the pull down list of “Format” to select VOB as output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify destination folder.

4. Customize output settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to optimize the output file quality.

5. Click on “Convert” button to start converting Blu ray Disc to DVD VOB format
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.

Part 2: Complete DVD authoring.
ReJig is used to do DVD authoring.

It’s pretty simple with ReJig. Press “File Mode”; add your vob files and Demux.

When it’s finished, close that box and then select DVD Author. Add the video and audio files you’ve just created, and choose output destination folder, and click Create.

After DVD authoring is completed, you can open the destination folder to see that the output files are AUDIO-TS and VIDEO-TS folders, which are the correct structure for DVD burning.

Part 3: Use ImgBurn to burn DVD
We have got VIDEO-TS folder in part two, so the DVD burning process with ImgBurn is pretty simple. Here give you two links to check the detailed steps:
How to write DVD Video files directly to single layer media using ImgBurn (DVD±R/RW)
How to write a DVD Video double layer disc using ImgBurn (Verbatim DVD+R DL) – just check the contents that start from adding VIDEO-TS folder of this guide.

After racing ahead on the desktop late last year with Radeon HD 5870 graphics card, ATI is finally starting to equip gaming laptops with its Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics—which, like its desktop sibling, supports DirectX 11—after it was announced in January at CES. First, Asus announced the G73Jh, and now Maingear has revamped its eX-L gaming laptop around the new graphics chip as well as the latest Intel mobile processors.

The eX-L is a 15.6-inch notebook, but still manages to pack a LED-backlit screen that can be configured with 1,920×1,080 resolution (as a $95 upgrade). For the base $1,599 price, it comes with a Core i5-520 dual-core CPU, though for another $400 you can go all the way up to a quad-core i7-820QM. You also get 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, and a DVD burner, though all are upgradeable: you can double the RAM (for $320 more), add up to a 750GB hard drive ($76 extra) or choice of SSD drive, and choose a Blu-ray reader/DVD Burner combo drive (an additional $145). Maingear outfitted the eX-L with a dual-heatpipe solution for the processor and graphics to try to keep things cool, though I’d be wary of having this sit on my lap for long gaming sessions.

Clearly, the new ATI graphics is the biggest draw here, being the first DX 11-compatible GPU and maybe the fastest one on the market. Is that enough to get you to buy a gaming laptop, or are you still holding out for some benchmark scores and reviews?