Easiest/Best Way to Convert DVB Captures

[elfen_lied]

Greetings clever forum people!

I am reasonably new to DVB and would appreciate any advice the experienced members of this forum could offer me.

I recently purchased a DVB device for my PC, namely the AVerTV DVB-T USB 2 which records to an MPEG-2 format. I recently discovered that this is of the transport stream form which clarified the oddities I had encountered with the files [eg. strange time coding, etc]. Also the captured files are in the order of Gigabytes and my initial aim is to convert the files in to much more managable .avi files. Also I would like to be able to edit out the adverts in the recording leaving purely the program itself. Any advice on achieving this in a reasonably simple manner but mainting as much quality as possible in the final file output would be extremely helpful.

One final question; I have seen the use of the term muxing/demuxing associated with the process but am not entirely sure what it means?

Any help is kindy appreciated.

Regards

Danny

[stax76]

Easiest way might be AutoGK but it has also the least control. Best way depends (the forum rules don't permit to ask this btw.).

[laserfan]

...my initial aim is to convert the files in to much more managable .avi files. Also I would like to be able to edit out the adverts in the recording leaving purely the program itself...I have seen the use of the term muxing/demuxing associated with the process but am not entirely sure what it means?
AutoGK is worth a try and if it works at all (by that I mean de-interlaces or IVTC's your files properly) then it works sensationally well. But I have found in the alternative that StaxRip is easy to use and will do anything that you might want to do.

StaxRip also includes an editing feature I believe, but I don't use it; instead to edit-out "adverts" and to assure a quality stream (i.e. repairs of broadcast problems) a great tool is VideoReDo Plus. One great feature I like is that it shows a graph of the audio associated with a frame of video, so you can select cut points that are perfect audibly as well as image-wise.

Finally the demux/mux process you are wondering about: simply put, all of the conversion tools have to separate the video from the audio in a program, and then manipulate them separately (e.g. convert MPEG2 to XviD and AC3 audio to MP3 audio) and then they mux (multiplex) these files back-together again to form a program stream that you can play (video and audio together and in sync). HTH.

[MaXiMuS]

HDTV2DVD (http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=HDTV2DVD) works fine if you require DVD from your OTA HDTV captures

http://www.videohelp.com/toolsimages/hdtv2dvd_853.jpg

[frednerk]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=799785#post799785

[elfen_lied]

Thank you for the help so far and apologies if this post is against the rules.

However, I investigated further and with your help I carried out a test process.

I used PVAStrumento to split the .mpeg file from my original recording to seperate .mpv and .mpa files and then used Mpeg2Schnitt to remove the adverts. I then used DGIndex to create .d2v which I opened through Gordian Knot. It was at this point that I was presented with a vast number of options so I left everything as it was. and proceeded to convert the files to a single .avi with a target size of 700mb.

Unfortunately the process did not complete and I was left with an .avi from the first pass without audio and a seperate .mp3 file for the audio. I believe the process I used for demuxing and editing was successful but may investigate other methods. However, any help regarding recommended settings in gordian knot would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards for the help so far, hopefully this will become a second-nature process.

Danny