Bad video quality on DVD burn

[jesseo]

OK, here's my deal - I recorded a bunch of movies from TCM onto my TiVoHD in "best quality" (in case it matters, I'm have TW Cable and am using CableCards). I was able to transfer them to my Mac G5 tower with no problem. I can watch them in the Toast video player and they look fine.

 

Here's the problem: when I try to burn the movies to video (singularly or multiple), the video is horribly jerky.

 

I also tried to use Tivo Decoder to strip the .tivo shell from the .mpg file, but when I tried to open them in Mpeg Streamclip, there was audio but no video (just the 5 dots).

 

Finally, I was able to use ffmpegx to reencode the movies as DV files, but when I tried to burn them as DVDs in Toast, I still got jerky video, particularly when there's lots of side-to-side movement (camera pans, etc.).

 

I'm thinking it might be an issue with field dominance, or the way that Toast wants to reencode the video - but even if I set Toast to "reencode: never" it still gives me the same result.

 

What would make a .tivo file play so well on my computer using the tivo viewer, but look so crappy when I try to do anything with it? Could it be a setting? A codec?

[MacGoddess]

OK, here's my deal - I recorded a bunch of movies from TCM onto my TiVoHD in "best quality" (in case it matters, I'm have TW Cable and am using CableCards). I was able to transfer them to my Mac G5 tower with no problem. I can watch them in the Toast video player and they look fine.

 

Here's the problem: when I try to burn the movies to video (singularly or multiple), the video is horribly jerky.]

 

I also have a TiVo with CableCARDs and I am having this problem also with Popcorn 3, and Toast 9. Actually, if I reencode the video from the TiVo files, it downgrades the quality but doesn't have the jerkiness. If I set Toast to NEVER reencode, I get high quality video with jerkiness in the action scenes. Close up slower scenes are fine.

 

I too have been experimenting with other ways to convert and burn these video files and it all takes too long to be worth it. Why can't Toast or Popcorn work as well with TiVo as EyeTV--just multiplex the files and burn them?