Hello, I'm new here. I have a new Mac Pro 8 core 2.26 with Radeon 4870. I'm looking for help converting files from a TIVO HD DVR to DVD media. Below is a copy of a message I posted in the TIVO Community forum. So far no help there, I'm hoping someone here may help. I wanted to explain the source of the message as it may read a little off topic, but I really hope someone can help me. Thanks, below is the message.....
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Hello, I'm new here and I'm looking for a little help. I want to convert a Tivo show which is in HD to a DVD using a brand new Mac Pro 8 core. I have Toast 9 Titanium for Mac which I used for a few shows, but I have one 18GB tivo file that is giving me problems. Every time I used Toast 9 to encode to DVD, Toast crashes at the 4% or 5% point. I also want to find a faster solution than Toast. The core utilization in Toast seems rather poor. Using the Activity Monitor utility, the highest CPU utilization that toast is using is 400%. My 8 core Mac Pro has 16 virtual cores (Nehlem Hyper Threading) and applications that are optimized for multicore will show up to 1600% core utilization.
I just installed Win XP sp3 with bootcamp and I'm going to see if Roxio Creator 2009 will do any better in windows with this problem file, and see if other Tivo files convert faster in the windows environment.
Speed is a BIG factor, more so than picture quality. I need to convert many large tivo files (15GB to 20GB) which are recorded from the Speed HD channel. Using Toast 9 in the Mac OSx environment, the encoding process takes a long time, 6 to 8 hours or so. I'm hoping there's a solution to harness the power of this Dual Xeon Mac to speed up the encode. Thanks for the help.
-Dougie
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Hello, I'm new here and I'm looking for a little help. I want to convert a Tivo show which is in HD to a DVD using a brand new Mac Pro 8 core. I have Toast 9 Titanium for Mac which I used for a few shows, but I have one 18GB tivo file that is giving me problems. Every time I used Toast 9 to encode to DVD, Toast crashes at the 4% or 5% point. I also want to find a faster solution than Toast. The core utilization in Toast seems rather poor. Using the Activity Monitor utility, the highest CPU utilization that toast is using is 400%. My 8 core Mac Pro has 16 virtual cores (Nehlem Hyper Threading) and applications that are optimized for multicore will show up to 1600% core utilization.
I just installed Win XP sp3 with bootcamp and I'm going to see if Roxio Creator 2009 will do any better in windows with this problem file, and see if other Tivo files convert faster in the windows environment.
Speed is a BIG factor, more so than picture quality. I need to convert many large tivo files (15GB to 20GB) which are recorded from the Speed HD channel. Using Toast 9 in the Mac OSx environment, the encoding process takes a long time, 6 to 8 hours or so. I'm hoping there's a solution to harness the power of this Dual Xeon Mac to speed up the encode. Thanks for the help.
-Dougie