A question on mpg file

[vandyo]

I have been moving my family vcr movies to dvd via Hauppauge's wintv pvr. In
earlier work I was improving the brightness by running them thru an older
version (1.3) of enhancemovie I had picked up. This was working fine but now
the program is refusing them with the error "an unknown video format or the
file is corrupted"

I have found that it will take the file generated directly from the pvr but if
I edit & resave it it will not. I use windvd creator2 to do this usually but
have also used other programs to no avail. I have also removed and reloaded
enhancemovie.

In looking at the indiv. files in windvd creator, I found that file preferences
that show a bitrate for the file are not accepted while ones that have blank
bitrates are accepted by enhancemovie.

Can anyone please tell me where this bitrate that appears in the preferences
might be stored in the file, and how I might access and change it. The lack of
a bitrate appearing there does not seem to affect the playing of the audio. I
did use a hex editor to look at the file but could not recognize anything. Is
this info possibly encoded?

I hate to purchase another editor but may have to so also please recommend
other programs.

I would appreciate any help extended.

Thanks, vandyo

[mats.hogberg]

DVDPatcher may help. Or try using something besides WinDVd to edit, like VideoReDo or Womble MPEG VCR. Or reverse the order of your process (process with enhancemovie first, then do your edits).

/Mats

[jsmithepa]

u can adjust brightness directly on the pvr application. Ever tried?

[vandyo]

mats.hogberg

Thanks for the software suggestions. I will look into them. I thought about changing the sequence of processing which would workok, however it does not help me on the ones I am currently sitting on. Since I deleted the orig. I am stuck unless new software solves it.

[vandyo]

jsmithepa

Your comment really surprized me. I am digging out my pvr manual to check. Is it a visible option or something special that has to be done? Thanks

[mats.hogberg]

I think it's a registry setting - Head over to www.shspvr.com and have alook around.

/Mats