Anyone else have this issue with XMedia Recode?

[low-fat-al]

I love the software but I have tested it out on M2TS files and VOB files and it did the same thing. I want to choose a segment to extract (audio/video copy) and it gets the start point fine... but the end point it ignores and just goes all the way to the end of the video.

Example:

Using a video that is one hour long: 01:00:00

I need a segment starting at twenty minutes in: 00:20:00
And ending it at twenty five minutes in: 00:25:00
basically a 5 minute clip.

Using Video Copy and Audio Copy for my audio & video settings.
After extraction the video is forty minutes long: 00:40:00

It grabs the 00:20:00 start point fine.... but ends up being the rest of the video to the end instead of being a 5 minute video cut part.

Version I am using is: 3.1.1.6


Anyone have any insight into this?

[Baldrick]

Have you tried latest version? Or maybe an older version.

Or cut m2ts with tsmuxer and vobs with mpg2cut2.

[low-fat-al]

3.1.1.6 is the latest version. I have used tsMusxeR with some files but you can't precise with cuts. It goes by decimal in regards to time to for cuts. Example: 24 minutes and 30 seconds relates to 24.50 on it. So if you need a cut a precise minute, second, frame.... you can't.

But I am using it right now to take out some unwanted streams for an M2TS file. Just had an error with it trying to downconvert DTS-HD to DTS though.

BTW... all the M2TS files I am wanting to cut up are from Blu Ray content, not recorded from cameras.

[FulciLives]

Convert the M2TS file into a MKV file and then do the cutting of the MKV with SolveigMM AVI Trimmer + MKV

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[low-fat-al]

I am trying to keep everything in it's native format. I don't want to encode the video to other formats, so basic cutting and lossless exporting is more what I want to do. And I tried several of the other applications out there like Smart Cutter, AVIDemux, and others. They all have quirks like crashing or whatever.

[FulciLives]

There is no re-encoding nor transcoding taking place when going from M2TS to MKV.

So basically you put it in a MKV to use SolveigMM AVI Trimmer + MKV to do the cutting then you can put it back into a M2TS if you like.

I didn't state this to have you dismiss it you know. It works.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[low-fat-al]

I will give it a shot. Thanks!

[low-fat-al]

Actually one question. What tool do you recommend to convert the M2TS files lossless to MKV?

[FulciLives]

Install MKVtoolnix

It comes with a GUI called mkvmergeGUI for creating MKV files.

If you need to convert back to M2TS later then use tsMuxeR

[low-fat-al]

That workflow works PERFECTLY!!!

Thanks again!!