Avidemux h.264 Editing

[billqs]

I just spent a couple of hours searching for an answer. I record tv shows with my Hauppauge HD-PVR which are .ts files in h.264 format. I have had a horrible time getting a program that can successfully allow me to cut commercials out.

For all my other TV recordings I use Avidemux and it works beautifully. But when I try to cut one of these h.264 .ts files I get:

"H264 detected

If the file is using bframe as reference, it can lead to crash or stutteting.
Avidemux can use another mode which is safed but YOU WILL LOOSE FRAME ACCURACY.
Do you want to use that mode ?"

Now, whichever choice I use (rame accurate or non-frame accurate) I get stuttering and the program crashes before I can make successful cuts in the video.

I read a post from 15 months ago that said that allowing frame accurate h.264 cutting was a major undertaking that would have to wait till a later release. Since it appears neither frame accurate nor non-frame accurate work for h.264 has this been addressed in any of the beta builds? Also, if I need to change settings in ffdshow I am willing to do whatever to find a good way to edit these files.

thanks!

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Nope, frame-accurate editing of H.264 still is not implemented, as it isn't trivial to do and other things need to be sorted out first.

Anyway, the application shouldn't crash. So I recommend you either give Avidemux 2.4.4 Final or the latest Avidemux 2.5 build a try ;)

http://mulder.dummwiedeutsch.de/home/?page=projects#avidemux

(Also note that Avidemux does support Avisynth input, so you can use DGAVCIndex (http://neuron2.net/dgavcdec/dgavcdec.html) to access your H.264 TS stream)

[Inspector.Gadget]

Avidemux doesn't use ffdshow*

*except in the limited case of using DirectShowSource in the AVSProxy

[LoRd_MuldeR]

Avidemux doesn't use ffdshow*

*except in the limited case of using DirectShowSource in the AVSProxy

100% right!