Need help with 7200 Recordings [Archive]

Smurftoon

02-25-2005, 01:14 PM

You need to read the Dishrip Forum at Yahoo. It's all there. You need a computer with XP or 2000. Download the Dishrip Program. If you had joined the Group and used the Search Archive Feature, You would have come accross the Following:

INSTRUCTIONS ON RIPPING, MUXING, & BURNING PROGRAMS FROM A
DISHPLAYER 7200

After fumbling around here for hours, downloading dozens of programs
that didn't work, and making several coasters, I finally got the
process down to extract video from a Dishplayer 7200 and burn it
onto a DVD. I thought it would be helpful to share this with you.
Thanks to many of you for providing bits and pieces of these
instructions, I would have never figured this out without you. But
the information is so scattered, incompatible with the 7200, and/or
hard to understand, that I thought I could return the favor by
putting it all together for newbies.

This may be long, but I'm trying to be as clear as possible, without
going into tangents. It's really easy after the 1st time.

Do yourself a favor if you're just starting out, select a 30-minute
program (or less) to burn to DVD so you can save yourself time in
each step below and perfect the process, before burning the long
ones. Make sure to test your DVD thoroughly, especially fast-forward
and reverse (which I had a lot of problems with and figured out it
was the bit rate).

I have a Samsung player (the old NUON one), and it is very picky
with the DVD's it likes, or will even recognize. I now make 100%
compatible DVD's, that also work perfectly on my portable DVD player
and my PC DVD. So if this process works for me, I'm pretty confident
this is all you need to get it to work for you, although all players
have their quirks.

I'm also going to assume that you know how to remove the hard drive
from the unit, and/or have set up an external drive. DO NOT let XP
do anything to your drive. You will not be able to browse it in XP,
and you won't see it in My Computer, but DISHRIP will be able to see
it.

Programs you need (located throughout the internet):
1. DISHRIP (DOS-based command-line program to read the Dishplayer
hard drive)

2. DVDPatcher (used to change the header information and bitrate to
allow the video to be opened in DVDAuthor)

3. TMPGEnc DVDAuthor (used to "mux", or combine, the seperate video
and audio files created by Dishrip into a DVD-compatible format, and
to edit the video and create menus) This program is not freeware,
but it does have a 30-day trial version that is fully functional.
I'm going to buy it unless I find something better. $50. I had a lot
of problems finding a program that would combine the MP2 audio that
dishrip created from my 7200. Apparently, with other dishplayers,
you must get a different type of audio file because I saw no support
or mention anywhere of MP2 except with DVDAuthor.

4. DVDShrink (to create the ISO image and do any necessary
compression)

5. DVD Decrypter (to burn the ISO to a DVD)

After you've downloaded and installed all these apps, you're ready
to start ripping and burning.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Rip programs from dish HD using DISHRIP. To rip one at a time,
just type dishrip at the command prompt and then type the number of
the program. To rip in batch, first type "dishrip" to view all the
program numbers, type 0 to exit, and then type:
dishrip R x x x x (x=the program numbers you want to rip, you can
specify as many as you want, seperated by a space)

2. This will create an MPG video file, and MP2 audio file, and a
text file with the program description.

3. Run DVDPatcher v1.06. Select the MPG video file created in step
2. Change the bitrate to "8.0 MBit [DVD]", and the Horizontal Size
to "720 [DVD, DVB]. Make sure that "First header only" is selected.
Click "Patch Now" and then "Start". It will be finished almost
immediately. THIS ENTIRE STEP IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE OTHERWISE YOU
WILL HAVE PROBLEMS WITH YOUR DVD. Leave the program open as is,
because you will be using it in a few seconds.

4. Run DVD Author. Create New Project. Click on Add file. Select the
MPG file from step 1. Ignore the error that "The video GOP is too
long", and click "Yes" to confirm (note: this is the only error you
should see. If you see more, then you didn't follow step 3). This
brings you to the "Add clip" screen. You should see the audio MP2
you created in step 1 automatically selected under Audio Settings.
The other settings are fine, leave them at default, and click OK.
Don't touch anything else here right now, leave it open and go to
step 5.

5. Now go back to DVDPatcher, and change the Horizontal Size back
to "544 [DVB]". Since you hopefully didn't close it, that's the only
thing you have to do. Click "Patch Now" and then "Start". You can
now close DVDPatcher. Again, this is important to do because
otherwise the video will be squished to the left of the screen.
Basically, you just "fooled" DVD Author to accept your file by
changing the resolution temporarily.

6. Go back to DVD Author. Edit the video if necessary (don't get
ahead of yourself with editing until you have this process down and
are making functional DVD's 100% of the time). Click on Create menu.
Edit the menu text as necessary. Click Output. Select an output
folder. Click "Begin output".

7. This will create a folder called "Volume 1" underneath the
directory you specified above, that looks just like the contents of
a DVD. When complete, run DVDShrink to create the .ISO file that you
will be burning onto DVD.

8. In DVDShrink, click on "File", "Open", and select the "Volume 1"
directory. DVDShrink will analyze the files. Assuming you can fit
this onto a DVD without compression (see the green bar along the
top), just click on "Backup!", verify your Target Device and the
Target Image File name and directory, and specify the volume label
under Burn Settings if you wish. Click OK. When complete, you will
have a .ISO image ready to burn to DVD.

9. I use DVD Decrypter to burn, but you can use your favorite
program.

For steps 8 and 9, you can use your favorite programs to create and
burn the ISO. However, these 2 work perfectly for me 100% of the
time and they are freeware. Steps 1-7 are the pains in the butt that
I had to figure out. The added benefit of DVDShrink is that if you
combine multiple shows and they don't fit onto a single DVD, you can
compress them as necessary.

Good luck!