Capture playback from Motorola DVR with VMS (11)?

Living Room Rocker wrote on 5/28/2013, 12:01 AM

Would it be possible to capture video playback from a Motorola (cable) DVR using only VMS (and HDMI cable) or would I need some other software and hardware?

Thanks in advance,

Living Room Rocker

Comments

Steve Grisetti wrote on 5/28/2013, 7:23 AM

You're not going to be able to "capture" the video, as you could if you were getting video from a miniDV camcorder, for instance.

It's possible you can transfer or copy the video files from your DVR to your computer and edit them. Although DVR video isn't designed to be edited, so you may find the results are less than you'd like.

But it's worth a try.

MSmart wrote on 5/28/2013, 10:35 AM

Although DVR video isn't designed to be edited

Cutting commercials out of TiVo shows works great with VideoReDo.

musicvid10 wrote on 5/28/2013, 10:50 AM

You can't "capture" broadcast video from HDMI.
It's all encrypted /scrambled at the source.

Your PVR recordings can be edited, after you've run them through "Quickstream Fix" in VideoRedo.

Living Room Rocker wrote on 5/28/2013, 10:00 PM

Thanks for the replys and advice, everyone. Much appreciated.

Kind regards,

Living Room Rocker