[jdm1979]

I record two episodes of Three's Company every night with a ReplayTV 4000. I download them to my pc using swap dv, PC Format. I then edit the commercials out using womble. Then I load my edited mpeg into Vidomi, and encode them into Divx files. By doing this there are several advantages. First is rather than having a 900 MB file, I have a 150 MB file. The quality is less, but not a dramatic difference. In fact, I mainly plan to watch these shows on a pc while I do other things on the net. Reducing windows media player to 50% the actual size, it comes in crystal clear.


I have one question. If I ever wanted to watch these files on my replaytv, can they be reencoded back to mpeg2?


Another question in reference to the new womble. This fix GOP option or what not doesn't do diddly squat for me. I loaded a few different mpegs recorded from the replaytv that had audio errors and attepted to fix it. It goes thru the motions but the end result I do not see any improvement. Now when it fixes the errors, it doesnt seem to overwrite the existing file, not does it make another file of the mpeg. The original mpeg is no read only either. Am I missing something here? Where does womble output the "fixed" mpeg? Does this work for anyone?



Later.

 

[dkan24]

unless I have missed something dramatic- you cannot play them back from the replay. You cannot even play the mpeg2 file once you change anything on it, ie- cutting the commercials out. Encoding into divx, then back into mpeg2 will most certainly not work.

 

[jdm1979]

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Originally posted by dkan24 unless I have missed something dramatic- you cannot play them back from the replay. You cannot even play the mpeg2 file once you change anything on it, ie- cutting the commercials out. Encoding into divx, then back into mpeg2 will most certainly not work.

I didn't think it would work either. But my main concern hear is with the new Womble feature to fix audio errors. I cannot understand it and it does not work for me. Has anyone any experience with it that successfully got it to work?

 

[pio!pio!]

Is Womble the only way to go?


I was thinking of using DVD2AVI to create a project file (and demux the audio) then loading that into an AVISynth script to feed into Virtualdub.

 

[paulnakada]

it's always possible to reencode video from one format to another. it's not always easy, but in the end, all you need is a decoder and an encoder.


my first guess would be to get some tool to frameserve divx video, and use virtualdub or tmpgenc to encode that back to mpeg.


i often struggle with what format to archive video in. in the end, i chose the one with the least hassle. the original mpeg2 format. sure it's a little big, but disk is cheap. i find i've got better things to do than be reencoding video all the time.

 

[Markito]

Wow, all that just for "Three's Company".


Scary! I had no idea the "Regal Beagle" had such appeal.


;P

 

[jdm1979]

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Originally posted by Replayer Wow, all that just for "Three's Company". Scary! I had no idea the "Regal Beagle" had such appeal. ;P

You better believe it.. Im a long time fan. So fat I have over 100 episodes commercial free and I am converting to divx as we speak.. its about a 2 day project. Thank god for Batch processes! Im happy. Looks great, sounds great file size is soooooo much smaller.. 900 MB vs 150 MB


Go DIVX!

 

[kearny]

what settings do you use for vidomi? i tried making a simpsons divx and it came out awful and not even that small (22 minutes, 240 mb and that's even with divx 3 time based 2 pass).

 

[jdm1979]

I installed Vidomi and started using it I made no changes in the options other than selecting my codec which was DIVX 5.01. Get it at www.divx.com

 

[Bigfire]

Did anybody ever solve the problem with Womble not appearing to do anything? I bought Womble tonight, ran a file through the GOP fixer that Womble claimed had problems, and the "Fix" operation doesn't seem to have saved a new file off anywhere, despite my putting in a different destination file name, leaving the destination field blank, etc. What has to happen to get a file out that's been fixed?