H.264 TS files created using HD PVR to MKV.

poisondeathray · Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Canada

Try the mod16 res (1920,1088)

If you still have the dashed line, it's caused by something else

mathieumg · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: Canada

It's encoding now (35%), I will report back when its done.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

Post some of your sample encodes.

jagabo · Member Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Location: none

Here's a short segment of 2001 A Space Odyssey I captured a while back. Captured as 1080i, inverse telecined back to 23.976 fps progressive, saved as Xvid AVI. The audio was pretty crappy at the source.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/eruhra

mathieumg · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: Canada

Nice jagabo

Encoding finally finished for me...

Filesize is about the same, quality is worse and it sometimes hang up and it makes VLC crash when I try to take a snapshot

There are some horizontal lines I can notice on the image too.

I'm starting to be desperate :'(

I will go record a short HD segment so it's much faster to encode and/or upload.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

Record a Short HD segment and I'll see what I can do with it.

poisondeathray · Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Canada

You can't use the same script as Red Hat: he is encoding a progressive source, you are encoding a 1080i source

You might want to deinterlace, or change recording modes

To minimize your time wasted, you might consider doing short test encodes on a short clip (e.g. 30 seconds) until you get settings that are acceptable for you

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

Poisondeathray, you use hd pvr or something else?

poisondeathray · Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Canada

I had HD-PVR, but it broke, awaiting my RMA replacement still under warranty. I might sell it and was thinking of getting the Intensity Pro, I'm not completely happy with it (but Intensity Pro has issues as well...)

mathieumg · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: Canada

Currently uploading a 100mb .ts file I just captured... will update this post with link in 10 minutes.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

http://www.sendspace.com/file/p7ft2y - I think I've posted enough of my samples to let you guys know I can capture and encode stuff now.

mathieumg · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: Canada

Happy for you Red Hat, maybe I'll get to that point too

http://qc-net.com/testencode.ts

That's my 100mb sample.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

I'm going to try to make MKV and AVI out of your ts file. Contact me on MSN at redhat.amd@gmail.com or AIM at RandomShadowMan to see what's going on.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

I'm currently encoding an mkv version and an avi version of the clip posted above.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7osvf5

TS files above encoded to AVI and MKV.
6000kbps bitrate for x264 MKV.
1100kbps bitrate fpr XviD AVI.

mathieumg · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: Canada

That's really neat. Can you help me achieve the same result please?

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

Here's the script used for your MKV at 1080i.

LoadPlugin("C:\dgavcdec100a34\DGAVCDecode.dll")
AVCSource("testencode.dga")
Crop(6, 14, -0, -0)
Lanczos4Resize(1904,1056)
FieldDeinterlace()

Here's what I did for MKV.
1.) I used DGAVCIndex to demux the files.
2.) Encoded the file in MKV x264 at 6000kbps with megui using avs script above.
3.) Muxed DGAVCIndex aac file with the mkv file encoded using megui.

Here's the script I use for my 720p stuff.
LoadPlugin("C:\dgavcdec100a34\DGAVCDecode.dll")
AVCSource("GraphEdit TS.dga")
SelectEven()
Crop(0, 8, -4, -0)
Lanczos4Resize(1280,720)

Always check to see if it needs to be 23.976fps or not.

mathieumg · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: Canada

I got my mkv to work with synched ac3 audio and everything

However, I am having an hard time taking commercials out of the mkv...

Anybody knows an effective way to do that?

Thanks

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

I've tried megui for cutting and it works for video but not audio. For audio, I keep getting stuck at 1.62%.

poisondeathray · Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Canada

mathieumg - I've already suggested in this thread what has worked for me for editing and keeping in sync, but YMMV as you can tell from the various posts

To be sure, the tedious way is to save as uncompressed (or lossless codec) and edit that, then encode to your final format

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

I just got CoreAVC Pro and I see a major improvement with DirectShowSource. For audio, I export it in virtualdub and make sure it's on full processing mode when I do it and if I play it before I export it or anything, it will mess up.

For DirectShowSource, export the wav audio in virtualdub with full processing mode and DO NOT PLAY it before you do it or it will mess up.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QNWGUZYX - I used megui to cut this file ( Original TS Cap was around 5 minutes ). Here's what I did.

1.) I muxed the ts file using dgavcindex.
2.) Loaded avs file with this script into megui.

mathieumg · Member Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Location: Canada

Thanks for the info, got the cut to work with AC3 from .TS and .MKV from .DGA.

One problem though, when I was trying to encode the x264.exe would crash. I checked the logs and found:

poisondeathray · Member Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Location: Canada

Just update your MeGUI using the development servers; Sharktooth forgot to update the profiles to reflect the new AQ changes but it's fixed now

AQ is adaptive quantization. It's not important for the encoding mechanics, but just an enhancement to quality in certain video types. It redistributes bits, reducing blocking in flat areas. Essentialy it eliminates the need for using custom matrices. I would turn the strength down or turn it off on anime/CGI type films

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

Alright, I'm finally 100% set. I can cut HD PVR files fine now with megui without using directshowsource or h.264 ts cutter.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MEGYF4WC - Take a look. Audio is encoded to 128kbps mp3 for both files. CoreAVC Pro rocks because I installed it and I no longer have issues with cutting audio in megui and it made everything encode a lot faster.

Red Hat · Member Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Location: Orlando Florida

I've successfully recorded a few episodes of tv shows now and cut out commercials using megui and the video/audio sync is great. The files are 23 minutes long and 220MB(PDTV Stuff).

MrCodeDude · Member Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Location: San Luis Obispo, CA

I have a 3 hour, 12GB unedited .ts file from my HD PVR and I'm having difficulty doing anything with it. My main goal is to shrink it down to at least a 4GB file so that I can put it on a standard DVD.

I've been trying to experiment with a smaller, 5 minute 300mb file to see quicker results, but nothing has been very successful.

My earlier process had been:
Captured h.264 .ts files (282mb) img
Burned to BDMV movie (282mb)
Open BDMV movie with Ulead VideoStudio and convert to .mpg (164mb) img
VideoReDo to remove commercials (85mb)
Handbrake to convert to DiVX (17mb) img

As you can see, the end results picture quality was horrible, so I'm trying some of the stuff RedHat, poisondeathray and others have suggested in this thread.

I've uploaded a 15 second clip of a 720p capture I have: http://www.sendspace.com/file/0tjnwb (15mb) preview image

So far I've used DS Mux (part of Haali) to export the file into a .mkv. I'm trying to use AutoMKV (w/ standard settings), but even with a small 15mb file, the x264.exe command prompt is taking about 20 minutes to process a 746 frame clip (at ~.50fps).

Somehow the resultant clip after running it through AutoMKV doubled the size of the file while reducing the resolution from 1280x720 to 1264x704. This isn't desirable (in speed or result), so I tried Red Hat's 720p process above.

1. I used DGAVCIndex to demux the files into angels.TS (original video file) and angels PID 1100 DELAY -47ms.aac

2. Using Red Hat's AVS Script, which I named 720p.avs