Best software to cut Mpg2 DVD files

[Luis Neves]

I need to cut commercials out of mpg2 dvd files (capture from TV). Its easy to do this with virtualdub (using the mod) to but after cutting I can not save again in the original mpg2 format.

So, I am doing this with Tmpgenc, but I need to produce 4 partial outputs to remove 3 commercial intervals and in the end join again, which takes some time. Is there any software that is better to cut these files and get an output without reeencoding?

[Tommyknocker]

You can frameserve from Virtual Dub to TMPGEnc after you edit in Virtual Dub.

[txpharoah]

TMPGenc can cut/join and MPGtx can cut (not sure about join, but never tried).

mpgtx.sourceforge.net

[Tommyknocker]

Begging your pardon TxPharoah(sic), but he said TMPGEnc takes too long.

[Luis Neves]

I have tryed with Virtualdub, frameserving to Tmpgenc. It works, and cutting with virtualdub is quite easy; we can cut several parts of the file and just leave the remaining. But there is a problem: a 1h48m film takes more than 5h30m to be processed.

So, after all it is faster to work with TMpgenc, from which I have to splitt the film into 4 pieces (excluding the commercials) and in the end join again. It needs more manual work but computer processing is faster (less than one hour total).

I´ll check MPGTx.

[FulciLives]

What if you have an mpeg2 file that has AC-3 audio. I know TMPGEnc can mux a M2V and AC-3 file into a final mpeg file but when I tried to cut it with TMPGEnc I got video but no audio. So unless I'm missing something the cutting in the MPEG TOOLS section of TMPGEnc does not support AC-3 audio.

I've heard GREAT things about Womble's MPEG2VCR which apparently can do what I want to do (simple cut editing of a mpeg file which was created from a M2V and AC-3 files) but that product is out of my price range (at the moment) so ... do I have any other freeware/shareware options?

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[txpharoah]

Begging your pardon TxPharoah(sic), but he said TMPGEnc takes too long.

Not much choice in that though, with anything that cuts. It takes time.