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Minas6907
24th October 2009, 03:22
Hello Everyone.

I was wondering if anyone could give me a few different names of software I could use to automatically remove commercials. Now this might sound weird, but I think its true. I have been using MCEbuddy, which is a nice program and I like the way it works. Now I normaly record with Windows Media Center, but I had a bunch of recordings from when I was using the PCTV software that came with my Pinnacle tv tuner. These were the first recording I used with MCEbuddy, and it pretty much worked flawless, I really couldnt belive it. But now with the recordings I have made using WMC, MCEbuddy really kind of does a terrible job. Umm, am I imagining this? I dont know any technical details about any of this, but is there a reason this should happen?

So anyways, this is why I want to try to find another progam to cut commercials from my recorded tv. I did some searching around on doom9, and all I really found was VideoReDo. I am currently away from my computer (on a trip for work) but I did download a trial of VideoReDo, so in a few days I will see if it works well. $50 seems quite steep to pay for a program to do this, there seems like there has to be something else that does this just as well with out costing so much.So besides MCEbuddy and VideoReDo, can anyone suggest a program to aid me? Any help is appreciated, thank you.

Edit: Oops, I realized something important I left out. My objective is to record a tv show using WMC, and then remove the commercials and encode it to a much smaller file, that is why I liked MCEbuddy so much. I just went on the VideoReDo website, and it appears that the software does not encode to an .avi format, just mpeg for dvds. Are there any other programs that will detect commercials and convert to an avo, or will I hae to do this in two steps?

Minas6907
27th October 2009, 05:02
Hey guys

Umm, I dont want to seem like I'm nagging or anything, but I thought more people (or anyone for that matter, hehe) would have a few suggestions for me. Anyways, if not, thats ok.

One thing, though. I have been looking at ShowAnalyzer, does anybody own this? If so, can you tell me if it works well? I would like some assurance before I spend the money to get it.

Also, did I post this is the correct board?

Ryu77
27th October 2009, 06:51
Since you are re-encoding anyway, why don't you just use VirtualDub's cut feature after you have frameserved the video to this application?

The only thing I am not sure about is what application would be able to extract the basic MPEG core from the DVRMS file. I have always used VideoReDo for this but as you said, you don't want to pay the $50 for this application.