Cutting Commercials out of Mpeg2

[squirrel2782]

I have the WinTV PVR and I have recorded the Simpsons using Mpeg 2, and I would like to clip the commercials out. First I tried using the nanoPeg editor I got from Hauppauge. Then I used Tmpeg to just join together parts that I wanted from the original. Both of those gave me problems with not being very accurate and also more annoying is that they made the audio and video out of sync. Does anyone know how I can do this to make it look good and work right? I would prefer free programs as I am a college student, but for a good program that works great I might be willing to buy it. Thanks for any help you can be.

[Vejita-sama]

Have you tried Virtual Dub (http://www.vitrualdub.org)

[squirrel2782]

I gave that a try and I get an error that says "MPEG import filter: pack synchronization error"

[N0SoopForU]

Virtual Dub doesn't support MPEG2 editing.

[squirrel2782]

yeah I just read that right before you posted it. Does anyone know any other programs I can try to use to cut commercials from MPEG2? Or why I would be having the problems I am?

[suriyan]

Editing MPEG1 or MPEG2 is a pain in the ... The ones that do frame level editing screw up the video format r loose sync. Did you try Mpeg2vcr from http://www.womble.com ?
It works only if your sound track is also mp2 or mp3 only.
I tried their mpeg1vcr for editing mpeg1 movies. They looked good till I discovered that they have some problem in which the video stutters and halt midway thru the clip and hence doesnt save the clip beyond that point.

[RaleighNC]

You can try flask/xmpeg with use the bbmpeg plugin.

[theraged]

I'm not sure about mpeg2's but I know with mpeg1, you can use Adobe premier to cut parts out - it is pretty simple to figure out...

[themamboman]

I would use Womble's MPEG2VCR.

If you really want to use VirtualDub to edit MPEG2 files, there is a way. Get DVD2AVI and load the mpeg file. Then, just save the PROJECT d2v file (not as an avi). You can also demux the audio with this.

You can then convert this small d2v file to an AVI using vfapi-reader. This will only be video though. You can get the demuxed mpeg audio into wav format by using tmpgenc and loading the audio mpeg as the audio, and going to file->save as->wav.

Then, load the avi into Virtualdub and then go to audio->wav audio and select the wav file you made.

Now, you can use VDub. However, you'll have to either save as an avi or frameserve to an encoder to get back to mpeg.

Not really worth it if you have womble mpeg2vcr.

[squirrel2782]

The womble Mpeg2Vcr looked good but unfortunatly I dont have the $250 to buy it so I can edit MPEG2. Is there any program that will convert MPEG2 into just normal non divxed .avi files so that way I could edit them using Virtualdub?

[toadatrix]

I have used the nanoPeg editor that comes with WinTV PVR several times with 100% success. The secret is to use nonoPeg to identify and join together the segements you want to keep. NanoPeg will then output a muxed mpg file as well as the separte audio (mpa) and video (mpv) files. If you use the multiplexer in TMEGPenc (mpeg tools) to mux the mpa and mpv files created by nanoPeg the final edited mpg file will have audio and video that are properly synchronized. Just discard the muxed mpg file created by nanoPeg. This has always worked for me.

[squirrel2782]

Hmm alright that sounds fair enought I am going to go and give that a try and see if I have any luck with that.

[squirrel2782]

I tried using the simple mulitplexer in Tmpeg and all it does is slow my computer down and make windows increase virtual memeory. I have 512Mb of memory installed so I dont see why it should take that much. For some reason it really doesnt like my computer. Everything else I have tried on Tmpeg works though

[Operationz]

PowerVCR 3
it's the best and it doesn't cost a ridiculous $250 to use!