Faster conversion

[dkelly701]

I am using Media Center 2005 which uses a file format called DVR-MS, a Bill Gates special. I downloaded a trial version of TMPGEnc 3.0 Express to convert these files to MPEG so that I can do something with them. My only complaint is how slow it is. A 220 minute recording took 10 hours to encode to MPEG. Is there another software that will give as good or better results but faster and also supports DVR-MS?

Any help appreciated.

[Soopafresh]

Lookie here

http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=16&groupid=131014&ck=

AND Here http://www.thegreenbutton.com/downloads.aspx


I think all you'll need is the DVR Ripper located above.

[dkelly701]

I have tried this software twice and both times I have nothing but errors. I saw other posters on The Green Button with the same issues. Seems like it works on some systems and not others.

Thanks anyway. Any other suggestions?

[Soopafresh]

Make sure you use THIS version of XMUXER with that ripping software

http://www.elecard.com/ftp/pub/Xmuxer/Xmuxer.zip

I also saw this post somewhere- "Windows Movie Maker will be updated in XPSP2 to edit / recompress MS-DVR files. No more monkeying with 3rd party apps."

It might be a long shot, but VSO DivXtoDVD might Work. It's Free, Fast, and Good. Try it and see if it will load the file up. It converts more than Divx source files,

[dkelly701]

I had downloaded the pro version and I guess that was the problem. I removed that and installed the above version and it seems to work. Thanks for the help.

If I use this DVD Ripper to convert the file to mpeg, author it to DVD format with Sonic and then shrink with DVD shrink to fit on a single DVD (it was a 180 minute movie), will that give as good of a final result as if I use TMPGEnc 3.0 Express to convert and shrink and then author that to DVD? I guess what I am saying is, does using software like TMPGEnc make a difference or do all of these products do things pretty much the same way. I am will to use TMPGEnc and take much longer to achieve results if those results will noticable better.

[dkelly701]

Guess I answered my own question. The movie I converted with DVR Ripper is out of sync.

[vhelp]

I have no idea (at the moment) what a DVR file is, or where you got it
But, a 220 minute source is 3:40 long. That's almost 4 hours of movie length
that you want to encode

I don't think that anyone can truely answer you question about which one
will be "best quality" - specially in this scenario. I think that your only
best answer will be to try the both of them, and not worry about the time
it takes just to encode them. Always get the quality down first, before
you go looking for other things to fine-tune.

.. The only time when this does not apply is when your goal is not quality,
.. but just getting a given time-line on one disk.. for instance, ..if
.. your time-line is 1:30 movie per disk, and another.. 2:15 movie on one
.. disk.. etc.

-vhelp 3064

[RedBull319]

mine is out of sync too.

[red_squirrel]

i dunno if it supports your DVR-MS format, but I use MainConcept MPEG Encoder; I think the results are as good as TMPGEnc but many will argue otherwise. It is one of the fastest encoders I have seen.

[rdfarr]

Soopafresh: "I also saw this post somewhere- "Windows Movie Maker will be updated in XPSP2 to edit / recompress MS-DVR files. No more monkeying with 3rd party apps." "

NOPE

[Soopafresh]

Figures

[jpconard]

Anything new on this?

DVR-Ripper works, but whatever it does, the streams are out of sync. Granted I could use Ulead and with significant manual effort maybe figure out which way out of sync and correct.

There are programs I want to take to real DVD format and use shrink to make fit.

By the way Dcut works awesome, takes any file DVR-MS to WMV and can edit. Keeps sync as well. Ulead though is very very slow going from WMV back to MPEG2 (DVD). Too slow to be useful. Started a 2 hour program and ran for 2 days and still wasn't done.

Dcut is definitely an add-on to get for MCE2005. You can edit segments right from within MCE. Fairly fast although I usually allow conversions overnight.

Anything new for this? Preferable freeware. Does anybody know if DVR-Ripper is always more advanced on video or audio sync and by how much?