How to get dvr recordings onto mac

There probably is but we are going to need a few more details. What is the Make and model of the DVR? What are the computer's specs model, memory, hard drive space etc?

Originally Posted by Slydude. Attached Images X-8knkpL. I'm doing something similar with a firewire cable and the firewire port on the cable box. Recording to the computer must still be done in real time. Files can get huge though depending upon the format the box uses. The files run roughly 12 GB per hour before conversion. Upside to this process is the transfer is entirely digital and I can use equipment I had on hand.

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There was no need for a stand-alone burner. The downside is that conversion can be slow on older gear. Occasionally you will get a file that does not transfer properly. I suspect this is either a corrupted stream or I've selected something that may be copy protected. I want to make a copy of a program on which my group was interviewed the station doesn't make copies anymore on so that we can use it to show other interested groups.

The computer is an iMac running I have GB so space available. Thanks for all your suggestions. To be much more specific than we have been so far we will need to know the model of the box. Some companies have crippled various features of their boxes. The easiest method would probably be to use a video camera that has pass thru recording capabilities. Once on the camera the file can usually be moved to the computer. If your cable box has analog video output red, white, yellow something like this should do the trick. The model is HDC. Originally Posted by mickibob.

Attached Images Screen Shot at 3. Beat me to it RadDave. You're spot on as usual. It looks like the port on the far end is labeled which would make it a firewire port. That is what I am using but as I mentioned it can be a pain in the butt to deal with. Not worth the headache if this is a one time thing.

Well I guess now I am going to have yo go a Googling for the answer. A you may have guessed I don't like not knowing the answer to these types of questions. My bet would be that the newer models have some means of more strictly enforcing copyright. I didn't ask, "How can I get The Office on my computer?

Also, you might want to try re-reading: Unless I'm misunderstanding my search results about your particular DVR, yes, that is correct. Apparently the easiest workaround is to convert it to analog and then re-digitize it. But that has some quality loss. It's both. It's technically been cracked but you'd have to find "pirate" hardware to save the video and I don't know if it even exists- most people who are willing to spend money on this sort of thing are looking to crack, say, BluRays and people just crack the bluray format itself.

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If you have an analog output from your set-top box, you can buy a cheap TV capture card for your PC and get it that way. There might be a fairly large quality dropoff, but it will work. Oh wow, there goes my hope to get it in HD, I guess.

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Would the sort of hardware bobdow suggested in the first reply still work? I see the Walmart sells something similar and if it didn't work, I could just return it to a retail store, which I'd prefer over the responsibility of mailing something back somewhere. I think I've changed my mind and I now just want to do what is easiest because I find this all very confusing.

That will not record HDCP encrypted video. If you have component analog video outputs, then either of the devices bobdow linked to should work.

Quality will be plenty good enough, though technically worse than it could be. Here's a thread on a different site where someone asks the same thing. The answer, I'm afraid, is that getting the data off the hard drive's not possible, so it's probably worth trying the analogue route mentioned above. In the future, you might consider running your cable into a tuner card on your desktop and using one of the fine pieces of software available there to record the program and archive it.

I didn't mean that to be unhelpful, btw, though I guess it doesn't help much with your specific issue. Sadly, bungadunga's idea of grabbing the component video in SD may be the most practical approach for your existing recordings. I know you were hoping for HD, but that's going to be tough to pull off. Either downloading the content from another source or replacing your DVR with something less moronic is probably going to be more fun than any capture solution you can rig up. Use the firewire port. You may have to get some sort of firewire adapter if your computer doesn't have one.

When connected, anything that gets played on the screen gets sent out the firewire port as long as you're not on a copy protected channel. This page may help. Not sure if anyone will see this reply, but what if I was able to get something like the Hauppauge HD PVR 2 with a cable card slot and get a cable card from my cable company? Then would I be able to pull the recordings off? As I understand it, the cablecard unlocks the encryption, which is why you need to get a cable card from your ISP if you get a Tivo, for instance.

Also, people seemed to mention an analog way to pull the recordings off, but no one explained what equipment I would need or how to do that. Googling that was too vague.

More specifics, please? It will allow you to capture video on any channel that doesn't have a copy protection flag set, but that set of channels will vary depending on your cable company and city from only over the air channels which can't legally be encrypted anyway to everything. To get your existing recordings in analog SD, you just need an analog TV capture device with a composite or S-Video input preferably S-Video and some recording software.

Most TV cards come with some software to record. You can do the same thing in HD with component cables, but capture cards that do that are very expensive. I am pretty sure the content was from copy-protected channels. So I just need something like this maybe?

This is annoying. I'm really curious about the Firewire connection, wierdo. Have you done that before?

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S-video is higher quality than composite. You'd hook the video capture device up instead of your TV, so the inputs on your TV aren't really relevant. AppleTurnover, you can check whether the channel is currently copy protected using the diagnostic menu. If it isn't, it would probably be worth trying the firewire thing.

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Otherwise the product you referenced or something like it is what you'll need to use.