Hauppauge output to AVI?

[rig99]

I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250. What I am wanting to do is record a 3 hour long show every night. Problem is, I think I will run out of space if it saves as MPEG2 like it does. So my question is can I somehow feed the MPEG2 stream into something and have it spit out an AVI instead of an MPEG2?

[MaDmiZe]

You may need to convert after the program has been captured. Any of these:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-encoders-avi-wmv
will convert for you.

[olyteddy]

Hauppauge has a converter that integrates with WinTV. IIRC it's called 'Wing' and costs about $20, from the Hauppauge website.

[rig99]

Wing looks like exactly what I need, but I'm not willing to spend any money on this. It's not something that's really important.

I found out I can make a graph in graphedit to do what I want. Only problem with that is the audio always ends up being shorter than the video for some reason so everything is desynced. So now I'm stuck on that.

[jagabo]

VirtualDub, AviDemux, AutoGK...

But your source is interlaced (either telecined film or full interlace) and players often don't deal well with interlaced AVI.

[rig99]

It is a problem with the encoder I was using in the graph. FFdshow was converting all the video to 25 fps before encoding. Don't know why it does that, so I got the xvid codec from xvid.org and now all is good. If anyone knows how to prevent ffdshow from converting to 25 fps please let me know because I'd like to use ffdshow for this.

Thanks

[jagabo]

If you can't get ffdshow to deliver the right frame rate, and you are saving as AVI, you could try using AviFrate to change the frame rate in the header.

[jman98]

reg99 - I'd advise that you consider getting a larger disk drive if 3 hours of MPEG-2 video fills your up. Disk drives aren't all that expensive these days and 80 GB (that's what your profile says) is really too small for serious video work.

[dadrab]

reg99 - I'd advise that you consider getting a larger disk drive if 3 hours of MPEG-2 video fills your up. Disk drives aren't all that expensive these days and 80 GB (that's what your profile says) is really too small for serious video work.

Yep. I'm well over 2.3 TB with storage now.

[DB83]

Hmmn.

My Hauppauge (using WinTv 2000) will record in Mpeg 1(VCD), Mpeg 1(2 mbit), DivX and other definable avi formats

[jagabo]

WinTv2000 doesn't offer AVI as an option when capturing from the PVR-250. It's a hardware MPEG encoder