Best way to rip commercials from mpeg/PVR recordings?

[Sniper82]

Having problems with comskip. It creates a file with GBPVR but what am I suppose to do with it? Is there a simple/easy way to cut them out?

 

[BlueWeasel]

How long are the shows and how exactly are you encoding them?

The encoding time depends on several factors, but with a system like that, an average encode (no special quality settings) should be in the 1.0x or 1.5x range, where x is the length of video.

 

[CrystalBay]

It sure sucks bigtime Huh , I dunno more HDD capacity on the pvr until things are up to snuff. It sucks I don't have the solution either

 

[nweaver]

if you don't want to watch them on a dvd player, but just archive them, burn them to DVD's as regular files, no encoding required.

 

[Sniper82]

Yeah I was wanting to use them on a DVD player. I will just stick with what I'm doing and just have my computer burn them while I am doing something. Does anyone have any suggetions on how to rip the commercials?

 

[mechBgon]

Depending on what you use to do the encoding, a dual-core 3800+ could chop your encoding times in half. And the system will run smoothly while doing them, too.

Oh, and Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 comes to mind, it's not too difficult to use IMHO and you could edit out the commercials with some timeline scrolling to locate them, a few clicks to split the video, and then just Delete And Close Gap. Premiere Elements will use both cores nicely.

 

[Auric]

Isn't the PVR recording to MPEG-2 (same as DVD) so it should be a relatively simple authoring procedure rather than transcoding? What are you using for the conversion and what is the duration of the recording which takes 2-3 hours? 600MB makes me guess 30m at low quality? If I recall, even MPEG-4 ASP to MPEG-2 with authoring and burning does not take longer than 1x on a decent system.

 

[Sniper82]

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[cubby1223]

I use tmpgenc's dvd author software to create dvds. And with that software I can make cuts in the video without re-encoding the video.