please read and give some input.

[Goatgod77]

Hello everyone, I am not necessarily new to capping/authoring, but I have a long winded question that really only fits in here. My dillemma is this... I recently bought a DVD writer so I have had to change my capturing process to capture TV shows straight to DVD format mpegs. The quality is great, but I have to use virtual dub to cut out the commercials and frameserve the edited mpeg into tmpeg and re-encode it, which takes almost two hours for a 22.5 minute file. Does anyone know of a better way to do this process? Aside from sitting and editing out the commercials as it records. I capture multiple shows, and it takes over 12 hours to re-encode them just so I can cut out the commercials. Just to clarify, I have an athlon 1.2ghz with 512 MB of RAM, tons of hd space. Any takers?

[bugster]

Just an idea.

Capture to avi (huffy, mjpeg?) at 720 * 480/576. Edit in vdub as before and frameserv to CCE or mainconcept encoders, much quicker than tmpgenc.

[reed1374]

Goatgod77:

I do the same as you. I capture TV @ 320x480 as Huffy AVI. Then edit commercials with Vdub and FS to TMPEG making a CVD with puertorican138's 40 Min CVD Template (which is excellent, I might add).

I have not had the money to invest in CCE, nor the patience for its interface. To me TMPEG is so very user friendly.

But I have great results from these settings.

R

[Goatgod77]

OK, I'm not saying that I'm unhappy with the quality of tmpeg, just the amount of time it takes to process 22.5 minutes of video. Any good tutorials on how to frameserve to CCE? Anyone have their own method for this? And by the way, thanks to the 2 nice people that responded. I appreciate all efforts.

[mbm]

If you're not too concerned about frame accurate cuts, just use Tmpgenc's Cut/Merge function in the MPG Tools. It cuts on the I frames, so depending on your GOP size you could be off by 1/2 second or so, But it doesn't re-encode, It just cuts & remuxes. It's ALOT faster with no loss of quality from the re-encoding stage.

[TBoneit]

Just curious would it be easier for you to just sit there when the commercial breaks are on, and only capture the parts you want then stitch them together?

For me that works with a pvr where I scan through and get the length of the parts I want so I know when to came back and stop/start recording.

Cheers

[Goatgod77]

OK, i tried the CCE method and i ended up with two files one has a .mpv extension, the other has a .vaf extension. what the hell are these files for? am i supposed to multiplex them? Does anyone use cce to make DVD files from non DVD sources that can help out?

[bugster]

OK, i tried the CCE method and i ended up with two files one has a .mpv extension, the other has a .vaf extension. what the hell are these files for? am i supposed to multiplex them? Does anyone use cce to make DVD files from non DVD sources that can help out?

The .m2v file is the mpeg-2 video with no audio. The .vaf file is a CCE working file and can be deleted once the encode is complete. You now need to extract the audio from your source file, encode to mp2 (with beSweet or Headac3he or TmpGenc) and multiplex with the .m2v file to get a complete mpeg-2 program stream with audio and video.

You may be able to miss out the multiplexing step if Your DVD authoring program accepts seperate audio and video streams.

[Goatgod77]

there is no m2p its an m2v, which wont open in any of my utilities. And it has no sound.