I forgot to mention a very handy advantage in VideoReDoTV Suite.  The thumbnail view now shows the file frame-by-frame, which makes for much neater editing — AND — just below the thumbnail view is a view of the sound level.  This lets me choose a Start/End thumbnail frame that has low/nil volume.  No more annoying short blasts of sound from a commercial that carried a little farther along than you thought.

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Core 2 Duo Q6600; ASUS Striker Extreme
4GB DDR2; ATI X1300 Pro
Seagate SATA II (320GB & 3 750GB jbod)
AverMedia Hybrid tuner - USB; Hauppauge PVR-USB2

I've been able to edit and burn DVR-MS recordings in the past, but I'm having a problem since adding HD Digital (via HDHomeRun) to the mix.

I recorded House in HD and have an 8GB .dvr-ms file that plays beautifully.  But, of course, I want to edit it (and downconvert it to 720x480).

First: I loaded it into TMPGEnc 3.0 Express, but it seems to have trouble working with this large a file (I have 1GB RAM, will it work better with more RAM?  Will TMPGEnc 4.0 work better?).

Second, I used DVRMSToolbox to extract an .MPEG file.  The resulting MPEG seems to have issues as reported by "ffmpeg -i house.mpg", specifically:

[mpeg2video @ 00A29310]releasing zombie picture54.8 bitrate=   0.0kbits/s
[mpeg2video @ 00A29310]releasing zombie picture64.6 bitrate=   0.0kbits/s
[liba52 @ 00A29310]Error decoding framekB time=637.6 bitrate=   0.0kbits/s
[mpeg2video @ 00A29310]ac-tex damaged at 35 24=638.3 bitrate=   0.0kbits/s
[mpeg2video @ 00A29310]Warning MVs not available
[mpeg2video @ 00A29310]concealing 1680 DC, 1680 AC, 1680 MV errors

Also, although I can run DGINDEX over the resulting MPEG, the demuxed AC3 audio reports problems (per DelayCut):

Time 00:00:54.592; Frame#= 1707. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #1 and this frame
Time 00:01:04.608; Frame#= 2020. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #1707 and this frame
Time 00:10:36.672; Frame#= 19897.  Crc1 error SILENCED: read = 53CC; calculated=0CD7
Time 00:10:36.672; Frame#= 19897.  Crc2 error SILENCED: read = 2AE9; calculated=6336
Time 00:10:36.704; Frame#= 19898. Unsynchronized frame...REWINDED 68 bytes. Found new synch word
Time 00:19:55.584; Frame#= 37363. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #2020 and this frame
Time 00:22:16.704; Frame#= 41773. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #37363 and this frame
Time 00:47:24.576; Frame#= 88894. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #41773 and this frame
Time 00:48:54.656; Frame#= 91709. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #88894 and this frame
Time 01:00:09.952; Frame#= 112812.  Crc1 error SILENCED: read = 4FE1; calculated=68B3
Time 01:00:09.952; Frame#= 112812.  Crc2 error SILENCED: read = C85F; calculated=2F54
Time 01:00:09.984; Frame#= 112813. Unsynchronized frame...REWINDED 1124 bytes. Found new synch word
Time 01:00:50.400; Frame#= 114076. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #91709 and this frame
Time 01:01:11.488; Frame#= 114735. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #114076 and this frame
Time 01:01:53.440; Frame#= 116046. Some basic parameters changed between Frame #114735 and this frame
Time 01:04:56.896; Frame#= 121779.  Crc2 error SILENCED: read = BA45; calculated=58AF
Time 01:04:56.928; Frame#= 121780. Unsynchronized frame...NOT FIXED. Reached end of file
Number of written frames = 121770
Number of Errors= 17

Does this problem (digital TV via HDHomeRun or other source) look familiar?  Would a different set of tools (e.g. VideoReDo or TMPGEnc 4.0) be likely to help?

thanks

HOW DO I TAKE THE FILES FROM MY DVR AND BURN THEM ON A DVD TO PLAY ON MY DVD PLAYER?

So on page 7  ktdt00 suggested a great way to accomplish what I need to do for personal archiving. Has anyone found a good combination of filters to use? The issue I run into is choppy video. I am not sure if this has to do with the video decoder I am using or if it's a clock issue. Can anyone provide any tips?

Hi, I recorded a film using Media Centre and then tried to burn it to get that message about it not fitting onto the disk.  But, my question is why, when the file is actually 3.5GB, won't it fit onto a disc that is 4,7GB???   And, every time I try to burn anything, it tells me that it needs to compress the file even if it will fit!

 

Well my issue is not exactly the same but still...

Whenever I edit a file with DVREdit and try to burn it the wole process goes fine but once i put it in a DVD player to play it I only get the Upper Left corner of video (1/4 of the screen like it is zoomed in on that corner)

just thought i'd add my strange issue to give this a bump

Pay the money, use Nero or Videoredo. Sorted.

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Regards

Eric

    Installed Vista Ultimate 64, Ati HD650 Pci-e comboTuner, used media center to record The Last Supper from History Channel from Comcast Cable, Inserted a blank DVD into the tray, chose the autorun selection of  "burn a DVD disk using Windows DVD Maker" and 50 minutes later its done.
It plays in good resolution, Chapters automatically placed, sound is in sync, files are in VIDEO_TS folder and I have no additional Codecs installed such as K-lite etc.
No, I have not tried to edit, but will post when I do.  I have Nero 8 Ultimate which I haven't used for anything but audo files yet, that may work.
Afterthought, I once spoke to the ATI tech who said the video card must have the proper hardware encoder," huh OK",I said.
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less than 100 builds.

Hi Everybody,

I'm new to TGB and pretty new to VMC too.  It may not be the best way but I have found that using DivX Author to edit and convert the dvr-ms files to DivX (it takes a while to convert but the reduction in size and the quality are impressive) and then using Convert X to DVD to create the DVD from the DivX file works quite well.  Worth a try if nothing else is working for you.

Pugwolf.

You're in the wrong forum, dude. Ask the Vista forum.

Sorry for posting in the wrong forum but the process should still work for MCE 2005 files.

Pugwolf.

Should or does? Have you tried it with MCE2005?

dvr-ms converter can help you

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