Editing MPEG with VirtualDub....is it possible?

[Macros746]

Hi folks,
I have been spoiled by the amazing ease that Virtualdub gives when editing .avi captured TV shows. The whole realtime mark in, mark out, delete to get rid of commercials is brilliant. Lately, for TV shows I'm not archiving, I have been capturing straight to high bitrate MPEG. It looks good enough but I still want to remove the commercials. So last night as an experiment I loaded an MPEG file into Virtual Dub. Much to my surprise it opened right up and I was able to do the mark-in mark-out realtime thing that I love so much (it is MUCH easier than using My Flix or Ifilm Edit) But I couldn't figure out how to dump back out to MPEG without re-encoding. Sure I could frameserve it to TMPGenc but the whole point of capturing directly to MPEG is to avoid encoding time. Is there a way to get Virtualdub to dump the output MPEG without reencoding? Or am I just stuck with the slowness of My Flix.....?

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[Macros746]

I'm beginning to think this is impossible....it CAN'T be.....(picture me
weeping and clutching my hair in agony) Some clever person out there
has to have a work around to make this work...

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[spidey]

You can't render it back out to an mpeg in VirtualDub, only .avi

Check out under the CAPTURE section as to how to frameserve with VirtualDub to TMPG, then you could edit in Vdub, and then render it back out to an mpg in TMPG.

[Macros746]

Yeah,
I know that I can frameserve it into TMPGenc (as in the first post) My whole point is that I want to avoid re-encoding. If there was someway to just tell TMPGenc 'okay you and I both know this isn't really an .avi file just a disguised .mpg file...so just rename it okay?' then I would go for it. Sort of similar to the 'stream copy' option in VD. I just want an easy way to edit out commericals that is as fast as Virtualdub (editing out commercials takes about 3 minutes with VD and about 10 with My Flix.....) If someone knows of an MPEG editor that is less klunky and quicker than My Flix and IFilm Edit I'd love to hear about it....

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