Sattelite capture in mpg, removing commercial

[mau108]

I have a sattelite card in the pc and am capturing some HD content, was wondering how I could remove the commercials and convert to AVI the easiest.

the format its saving it in is MPG (mpeg 2 I believe for dvd).

Software in use is mytheatre.

Thanks!

[daamon]

You can use VirtualDubMod - it accepts MPG files, you can select bits to be removed, and can use any installed codec to output to AVI.

It's free, and there's plenty of guides explaining how to do what you need to do.

[mau108]

how do I cut it out of Vdub?

When I set the start and end points and move to after the commercial and set the start point again it clears the first set.

[daamon]

I can't see how you can set multiple ranges, so it looks like - unless anyone knows how to do it differently - you'll have to set your start frame, end frame and Del (delete) to remove the unwanted frames - and repeat...

[guns1inger]

Pretty much. One at a time is how virtualdub does it. For commercials it isn't that bad. For real editing it's horrible.

[mau108]

ok ive figured it out, but virtual dub mod doesnt allow any sort of compression of the audio. I'm getting AC3, must I use dgindex and then throw it into vfapi and then into regular virtual dub and do all the work on that?

OR is there a way to compress the audio in virtualdubmod ?

[guns1inger]

Streams -> Stream List. Right-click and select Full Processing Mode. Right-click again and select Compression.

You need to have LAME installed to be able to do MP3 higher than 56kbps.

[kamaleon]

Hi, you could give these a go: mpeg2schnnit and/or hdtv2mpeg2

[ZippyP.]

Hi, you could give these a go: mpeg2schnnit and/or hdtv2mpeg2

These will not convert the file to avi as was originally requested.

[kamaleon]

Yes, that's right. But i suppose he could remove the commercials then convert to avi using another tool

[dj4monie]

I use Pinncale Studio 8.... Works perfect, you wanna see? I put it on Google Video, its Pinks! All Out - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6065538802002442278&q=Pinks%21+All+Out