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HD Archiving: Best Format?

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ManontheAVS

Discussion Starter · May 2, 2006

Hi gang, first post, want to say thanks to the forum for getting my started on Firewire HD recording a year ago. I've got it pretty much down to a science now, and seem to be suffering under my own success: all these .ts files are really adding up!

I want to pose a question to those of you that store your recordings: what format do you use? I use MPEGStreamClip to pull the commercials out, which converts the files from m2t to .ts upon saving. They play back just great in VLC. I know that StreamClip can export to all sorts of fun formats. I've fiddled around with it a bit, but I thought i'd pick your brains, rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.

How do you store your HD recordings so that you can still enjoy the quality, while skimming off a little bit of the size?

Thanks for your help,

Manny

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Joseph S

· #2 · May 2, 2006

There's no difference there. You can change the extension all you want between .m2t, .ts., .tp, .trp.

.mpg is different.

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almostinsane

· #3 · May 3, 2006

Mpegstreamclip screws up the audio. It will convert the 5.1 track to 2 channel only.

For this reason I never use the program.

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ManontheAVS

Discussion Starter · #4 · May 3, 2006

Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. I was looking for the format (divx, XviD, pick your flavor of mpeg) that people use when they dont want to maintain the files as transport streams. I've got a nice computer monitor, but no way to get the content back to my HDTV. Therefore I'm more interested in preserving the quality for my computer than as a stream to get back to the TV.

Thanks again!

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ManontheAVS

Discussion Starter · #5 · May 3, 2006

Hi Almost, what do you use instead to cut out the commercials?

Thanks,

Manny

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cavalierlwt

· #6 · May 3, 2006

AFAIK the best quality compression right now is H.264, the newest MPEG-4 release, pretty much made for HD. Other will probably know more than me, but I've only seen it available in Nero Digital which might confine you to Windows only playback via the Nero player, or playback via the multiplatform VLC player, I'm not totally sure. There is also an Open Source version called X.264, I'm not sure how you use it, which program etc. You might want to check out Doom9.org for more info, plus other people on these boards might have some info. I do know it takes a long time to encode a movie this way, it took about 20 hours for my AMD Athlon64 3000+ to encode a full length movie using Nero Digital.

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