TS file to something smaller and edited.

[ah802]

Was going to post in the newbie section, but I've had enough experience to know the answers always are better in specific forums.

I have .TS files captured with a Hauppauge HVR-1600 4 gigs/i7/ win7/64 Not sure what everyone uses to clip out commercials, but I picked Mpg2Cut2 to start me off (free) and ended up with a folder and file that was locked, crashed explorer. I had to delete folder using a DOS shell. Next attmept (I don't give up easy) was to save cleaned snips, files 1 through 9.. then using a standard file joiner 'hjsplit' join them back-up... that seemed to work. Using HandBrake I reduced it to manageable size (from a 1080 res at 13 gigs to a 720p at 3 gigs) but had to do it twice.... looks like some sort of file locking. I felt it was a result of not stripping the .TS of extraneous data first and the brute force joining didn't help. From some of the material I've read... looks like PVAStrumento massages and otherwise sets up a .TS file for manipulation, but when I run it... I get

Maximum GOP size exceeded at 20:33:55.500.
Re-syncing.
Closing starting GOP.
Aiming for sync at 20:33:56.501
Cutting audio.

and I'm left with a tiny cut of the last part... better tools, better settings? My goal is a smaller video for my XBMC set-up.

[hello_hello]

Do you have lots of files to encode? Until someone with more commercial clipping experience comes along.....

What about encoding the original ts file and skipping the commercials rather than trying to edit the ts file and then encode it? MeGUI has an AVS script cutter. After you've setup your encode and MeGUI has saved it's avs script you can open it with the cutter tool and add your cuts. There's a preview window so you can add them at specific frames which would let you to cut the commercials accurately. MeGUI should then skip them when encoding.

Or I think avidemux will open ts files. http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

[hello_hello]

And of course there's tsmuxer. It'll cut, split and join ts files. http://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR

[ah802]

And of course there's tsmuxer. It'll cut, split and join ts files. http://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR
Thanks for the tip... I'm off to try it. Well considering I have this nice OTA source of HD, and a nice media set-up... I'd like to make a regular process of this without having to spend a small fortune on storage solutions.

[Ghitulescu]

PVAstromento was designed for MPEG-2 streams and codecs. It may be that your stream is .M2TS and the codec be H.264. I never used pvastromento for other streams than MPEG SD.
The same goes for ProjectX (well, I use PjX for extracting subtitles from HD streams).

For HD streams I use mainly tsmuxer, multiavchd and ts doctor (as they come from SAT and one never knows).
Hope it helps.