FAST cutting method for SDTV PVA-files

[Johnny_Deep_Down_Below]

Hello!

My harddiscs are filled with nearly 300 GB DVB-recordings. I am slowly running out of space, my 690 GB are almost full, so I want to save space by cutting out the ads of these files.

The tool for cutting...
1) ... has to output PVA-files again (no MPEG2-files)
2) ... has to be REALLY(!) fast. Especially previewing should be fast, file-processing may take longer, as long as batch-processing is possible.
3) ... should work RELIABLE. I don't want to check every cutted file if it contains crap or is too short.
4) There is NO NEED for very precise cutting, as long as I can cut out most of the commercials quickly.

Most tools I found were incredibly slow (like that unbelievable-slow Java-tool called 'project-x'). I found PVACut, which uses the ultrafast DVD2Avi-Tool for previewing, but the files were incomplete and therefore useless.

Maybe you can give me an advice...

[stax76]

Obviously you don't like the idea of reencoding it to MPEG-4, don't you?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Have you considered burning some of these recordings to DVDs (as data) and then offloading them from your hard drive(s)?

[Johnny_Deep_Down_Below]

No I dont want to reencode them. This would have two disadvantages:

1) It would take a LOT of time.
2) I would not be able to play them through the TV-Out of my DVB-S Card (only MPEG2 possible).


I also don't want to burn them to DVD, I only save series/movies that I want to watch again to DVD, these files should just be available for watching for a few months.

[Julora]

ProjectX does the job for me!
If you google around you'll surely find it.

Good luck

julora

[setarip_old]

I also don't want to burn them to DVD, I only save series/movies that I want to watch again to DVD, these files should just be available for watching for a few months.If you're trying to save hard drive space by resorting to cutting out commercials from these files, it certainly must be worth 30 cents (US) each to offload them to DVDs - for as long as you wish to keep them...

[setarip_old]

I also don't want to burn them to DVD, I only save series/movies that I want to watch again to DVD, these files should just be available for watching for a few months.If you're trying to save hard drive space by resorting to cutting out commercials from these files, it certainly must be worth 30 cents (US) each to offload them to DVDs - for as long as you wish to keep them...

[stax76]

It would take a LOT of time.

You might be able to automate a lot things, if you encode quality mode at a high quant you don't gain much by slow codec settings, in quality mode you only have one pass and if you use a multithreaded codec and a dual core CPU you are easily < 1 hour for each movie, maybe even < 30minutes.


I would not be able to play them through the TV-Out of my DVB-S Card (only MPEG2 possible).


IMHO this card is not really premium but outdated. I have a cheap MSI card with ATI 9550SE chip with decent TV out quality, also cheap are SS2 and DVB Viewer and imho this is a very good combination.