ellesshoo
17th September 2008, 05:20
I captured some video from my cable box this past weekend (firewire connection capturing the .ts video stream). I've done this countless times but never for this particular channel. I want to be able to transcode it from .ts/mpeg2 to either xvid or x/h.264. I'm having a lot of trouble though.
Some programs think it's interlaced, some think it's progressive, and MeGUI thinks it's hybrid or "partial". In any case, it plays fine as is (.ts) but I can't get any programs to transcode it without seriously messing up the picture every couple of seconds or minutes. Is there any program I could use that would just look at the video frame by frame, as if I were watching it, and encode the frames into a new file as simply progressive so I can get on with what I want?
I've tried searching and either can't find what I'm looking for or what I do find is just too technical for me to follow what's being said/done. I'm willing to be patient and learn if someone could baby-step me through it. I can provide whatever details about the video if need be but like I said, I'm having a hard time understanding how it's progressive one moment, interlaced the next, or why different programs give different answers to this issue.
Some programs think it's interlaced, some think it's progressive, and MeGUI thinks it's hybrid or "partial". In any case, it plays fine as is (.ts) but I can't get any programs to transcode it without seriously messing up the picture every couple of seconds or minutes. Is there any program I could use that would just look at the video frame by frame, as if I were watching it, and encode the frames into a new file as simply progressive so I can get on with what I want?
I've tried searching and either can't find what I'm looking for or what I do find is just too technical for me to follow what's being said/done. I'm willing to be patient and learn if someone could baby-step me through it. I can provide whatever details about the video if need be but like I said, I'm having a hard time understanding how it's progressive one moment, interlaced the next, or why different programs give different answers to this issue.