[jayasena]

FYI, I've had trouble dealing with the PAC-12 channel.  While I've had no trouble encoding games from other channels (for my own archives) (including other 1080i broadcast video), I've had difficulties with PAC-12 video.  If anyone else is able to do this for that channel, let me know what settings/software you're using.  Even VLC sometimes has problems with the PAC-12 video decrtyped from TiVo.  I'm wondering if they're producing video that violates the standard (perhaps intentionally).

I seriously doubt the PAC-12 (or anyone not in a closed system) would ever intentionally produce video that violated the standard. If they did, their content probably wouldn't play on the vast majority of devices out there. That's clearly not the case here.

I don't know how Tivo exports the video (does it re-encode or does it output the original stream etc.), but it's quite likely that the video stream is using a profile or level or feature that's incompatible with what you are trying to decode it with. It's not surprising that a new channel like the PAC-12 would use the latest features available in the standards (which keep evolving).

[jayasena]

FYI, I've had trouble dealing with the PAC-12 channel.  While I've had no trouble encoding games from other channels (for my own archives) (including other 1080i broadcast video), I've had difficulties with PAC-12 video.  If anyone else is able to do this for that channel, let me know what settings/software you're using.  Even VLC sometimes has problems with the PAC-12 video decrtyped from TiVo.  I'm wondering if they're producing video that violates the standard (perhaps intentionally).

I seriously doubt the PAC-12 (or anyone not in a closed system) would ever intentionally produce video that violated the standard. If they did, their content probably wouldn't play on the vast majority of devices out there. That's clearly not the case here.

I don't know how Tivo exports the video (does it re-encode or does it output the original stream etc.), but it's quite likely that the video stream is using a profile or level or feature that's incompatible with what you are trying to decode it with. It's not surprising that a new channel like the PAC-12 would use the latest features available in the standards (which keep evolving).