TS to DVD?

[hijacker]

I am a n00b in this so please be gentle if I what I write makes no sense.

I've recently bought a Dreambox Digital SatTV receiver wich I find working very well. I can record signal directly to a hard disk I've put inside the component and the image is perfect.

So I went and recorded a concert that was broadcasted on VIVA and now I want to burn it on DVD so that I could watch it anytime on my DVD player. The format I get is TS. I can play it on Dreambox or copy it to my local computer and use ElegMpeg codec to play it on my PC.

Here is what I know so far. I need to use program called PVAStrumento and extract MPEG2 movie out of the TS file. I can do that in two way. To get a direct MPG sufix file or demux it as MPV and MPA.

Now how do I edit this files, like crop out the comercials, and make a DVD VOB files out of it? Any tips on how to start?

[chadamir]

If you get elecard mpeg2 decoder from there http://www.elecard.com/download/ and tmpegenc plus, you can load ts files into it and convert straight to dvd. You can alsoo get tmpegenc regular but that has a 30 day limit. That should do it. Also under other options in tmpeg under advance, change video arrange method to full screen keep aspect ratio 1 for widescreen and 2 for full screen. Good luck.

-chad

[hijacker]

Great! I am gonna try this as soon as I get home from work. Any tip on how to edit the MPEG file? Like remove out the comercials? I know I can't use VirtualDub on MPEG2 file, so is there another software that can do that?

[chadamir]

you can use virtualdubmpeg2, which does support mpeg2. Or you can probably use the cut tools in tmpeg but id worry about syncing with those.

[bb]

Why do you re-encode?

I use PVACut 3.50 / PVAView to cut at GOPs, then PVAstrumento to convert the transport stream into a program stream (you can use the Java program ds.jar, too).

By the way: if you don't have a PVA file to begin with: no problem. Use PVAstrumento to get it from your MPEG-2 TS.

No re-encoding this way, and much faster than the TMPGEnc way.

bb

[FreQi]

You should check the sticky (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49349#post285754) on DTV Tools. I never finished writing how to do the audio, but it'll get you started on processing the transport streams at least.

[Herske]

>You should check the sticky on DTV Tools

Nope, some of these tools are useless for European users.


Im using ds.jar in order to convert/demux the stream, it is *very* forgiving of stream errors, and it doesn't drop GOPS as PVAstrumento does. I'm using mpeg2cut (fast mpeg2 splitter/cutter based on DVD2AVI) for basic editing. I demux the stream and the I use DVDPatcher in order to patch the headers to make it "dvd compliant".