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Video Conversion

tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
edited November 2006 in Help / Advice Forum
Alright guys, I need some help with this one.

I've been searching around on the web, I can't seem to find a program that will do what I want it to...

I need to find SOMETHING that will convert dvr-ms into anything that isn't dvr-ms.

For those who are unfamiliar with the format, it's the format that media center saves recorded tv shows in.

My issue is that the format is WAY too big. (3 gigs for an hour long TV show, most of the time) AND that I can't edit the video to cut commercials... for.. umm... well never mind that. I just want to cut the commercials. They suck.

Can anybody help me?

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  • robaalrobaal Registered User regular
    edited November 2006
    Here are some tools:
    http://thegreenbutton.com/files/default.aspx

    It looks like you'd want to convert it to MPEG-2 and then transcode it to whatever you like (H.264/X.264 would achieve the greatest compression ratio but requires a lot of processing power to decode, XviD should work fine).
    Unless you don't mind WMV :shudder:

    www.doom9.org has some tutorials on encoding, I think. You can use VirtualDub to cut out stuff as well as encode, though I'm not 100% sure it likes MPEGs.

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  • RaggaholicRaggaholic Registered User regular
    edited November 2006
    Also, you may want to try Video Help. They have all types of forums on video conversion and appropriate programs to use for what.

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  • denihilistdenihilist Ancient and Mighty Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited November 2006
    robaal wrote:
    Here are some tools:
    http://thegreenbutton.com/files/default.aspx

    It looks like you'd want to convert it to MPEG-2 and then transcode it to whatever you like (H.264/X.264 would achieve the greatest compression ratio but requires a lot of processing power to decode, XviD should work fine).
    Unless you don't mind WMV :shudder:

    www.doom9.org has some tutorials on encoding, I think. You can use VirtualDub to cut out stuff as well as encode, though I'm not 100% sure it likes MPEGs.
    Man why would you want to go to MPEG before H.264?

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  • tony_importanttony_important Registered User regular
    edited November 2006
    thanks guys


    I'll make use of this.

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  • robaalrobaal Registered User regular
    edited November 2006
    denihilist wrote:
    robaal wrote:
    Here are some tools:
    http://thegreenbutton.com/files/default.aspx

    It looks like you'd want to convert it to MPEG-2 and then transcode it to whatever you like (H.264/X.264 would achieve the greatest compression ratio but requires a lot of processing power to decode, XviD should work fine).
    Unless you don't mind WMV :shudder:

    www.doom9.org has some tutorials on encoding, I think. You can use VirtualDub to cut out stuff as well as encode, though I'm not 100% sure it likes MPEGs.
    Man why would you want to go to MPEG before H.264?

    Because DVR-MS uses MPEG2 compression for video, so he would be stripping the crap and making it usable by normal programs.

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    At night, the ice weasels come."
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