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I just wanted to share my excitement about a free alternative to Womble that I just noticed today...
MPEG2Cut...can be found here http://darkav.de.vu/
It IS NOT frame accurate... but it is simpler to install and WAY faster than GOP Chop.... and it seems to let you to chop at least at sub 1 sec intervals...probably a GOP...
I took a file that I have been fighting with for a LONG time and cut the segments out of it that were not commercials...saved them as their own clips and DMF2 made a dvd WITHOUT re-encoding...
one of the interesting things was that since the peices i wanted to save were split as clips, i was able to find the one section that had a wierdness in it relatively easily... i could then go back and re-create thhat section being more careful to take all remnants of the commercial out and re-load it into DMF2....
For anyone who has had difficulty getting DMF2 to not-re-code, give this a shot...
The one downside is that it saves them all as separate clips...so when you pull them all into DMF, it shows and icon for each one... now all I need is a program that can QUICKLY re-combine them.... (unless the Womble group buy finally comes through REALLY cheap...)
if I can;t recombine them, then maybe the DVD Lab program will be a better fit than DMF2 since you can customize the menu to only show the first clip, but then the other clips would follow automatically...
Anyway, just wanted to share my excitment over finding a way to finally get my West wings to DVD without re-encoding them before my HD runs out of space... I have tried EVERY method here... the only close to working before was demuxing...but then I alwys seemed to have worse than normal sync problems (not awful though...it was my backup plan)....
Good luck.. let me us know if any of you have luck with this method too....
MPEG2Cut...can be found here http://darkav.de.vu/
It IS NOT frame accurate... but it is simpler to install and WAY faster than GOP Chop.... and it seems to let you to chop at least at sub 1 sec intervals...probably a GOP...
I took a file that I have been fighting with for a LONG time and cut the segments out of it that were not commercials...saved them as their own clips and DMF2 made a dvd WITHOUT re-encoding...
one of the interesting things was that since the peices i wanted to save were split as clips, i was able to find the one section that had a wierdness in it relatively easily... i could then go back and re-create thhat section being more careful to take all remnants of the commercial out and re-load it into DMF2....
For anyone who has had difficulty getting DMF2 to not-re-code, give this a shot...
The one downside is that it saves them all as separate clips...so when you pull them all into DMF, it shows and icon for each one... now all I need is a program that can QUICKLY re-combine them.... (unless the Womble group buy finally comes through REALLY cheap...)
if I can;t recombine them, then maybe the DVD Lab program will be a better fit than DMF2 since you can customize the menu to only show the first clip, but then the other clips would follow automatically...
Anyway, just wanted to share my excitment over finding a way to finally get my West wings to DVD without re-encoding them before my HD runs out of space... I have tried EVERY method here... the only close to working before was demuxing...but then I alwys seemed to have worse than normal sync problems (not awful though...it was my backup plan)....
Good luck.. let me us know if any of you have luck with this method too....