New to converting, need some assistance please.

[ChipChipperson]

Hello, i have a hdpvr i picked up and so far things have been going decent. I have been doing nothing but reading the last few days. I have made some successfull ts to mkv conversions but i have a few questions.
My raw TS file when i play it in vlc shows it as 60fps, when i use a program called DGAVCIndex to make an avs file for Megui it always turns it to 29.9 fps. How do i get it to save avs at 60fps?

When i record a file thats lets say 2 and a half hours long, the total TS to MKV conversion takes about 6 to 9 hours. I made an Xvid and that took almost 4 hours but the quality wasnt there for me. are these times normal for a i7 920 with 8 gb ram?

thank you for you time and help.

[Baldrick]

Can you post the full details from the ts file. Use for example mediainfo, open ts, view->text and copy everything and post here.

[budwzr]

The HDPVR only records what signal comes in. Fer instance, broadcast will come in as interlaced because it is. Something from somewhere else might come in as progressive, like Netflix.

Start with a 5MB quality setting and if you like it, that will edit faster than a full 17MB recording.

The HDPVR records in X264, I believe.

[manono]

My raw TS file when i play it in vlc shows it as 60fps, when i use a program called DGAVCIndex to make an avs file for Megui it always turns it to 29.9 fps. How do i get it to save avs at 60fps?

I suspect VLC is bobbing it (and in the process doubling the framerate to 59.94fps) while DGAVCIndex shows the true source framerate. Nothing is wrong and there's nothing to fix.