This doesn't seem user friendly.

I guess I didn't do something correctly. It made my media center go black because it brings the configure screen up every time I start media center. Somehow it halt media center from starting until the configure screen is closed. Then it says the service is already running. I have dcut installed which I guess uses the same service....

I tried to install this and I cannot uninstall this program... Caution do not install this program you might never be able to uninstall it again

This is great software! (not very user friendly, but what the heck) Anyone knows about good settings for showanalyzer and swedish channels (TV4, TV6)?

Great program in theory, not QAed much though. It installed listener services without (my) expectation, attempted reinstall itself on start unsuccessfully, then wouldn't uninstall easily. It was a royale pain in the butt to uninstall this thing manually. The few times it worked, the commercial skip add-in seemed to cut out chunks of the show randomly, but never within an actual commercial block! I couldn't figure out how to tune it either.

works fine for me here this helped me out http://www.litwack.org/?page_id=1114

Works great! I withing 10 minutes of downloading DVRMSToolbox, it was converting DVR files to MPeg. I had a bit of a problem with audio/video sync, but that appears to be sparatic when rendering with Studio 8.

"Do Run" error! Any ideas? It used to work great!

Any suggestions on software to use to burn a commercial-less tv show that was edited with DVRMSToolbox? Most software I've used never complete the burn process. I even convert to other formats and still does not work.

Downloaded but won't launch and after reading thecomments I think I will just unistall it and wait til the gliches are worked out.

I've got this to work but am having Audio sync problems. Seems fine at the start of hte .mmpg but goes out of syn shortly into it. Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

I read an article on this in PC Magazine It stated that you can set a time where it will automatically remove commercials etc.. I cant quite figure out where I can set a time where it will automatically work on a directory etc... thx

Too complicaadto nstall, too complicated to use.Bad standards in GUI. And itdoesn't even work. Keeps crashing on exception faults.

Program hangs up after converting to WMV, and does not migrate meta-data or index. This means that it is not possible to fast forward or rewind or skip when playing the converted file. Hope someone can fix the bug. Or else a great program.

I'm no slouch on a com,but i'm no guru either.Think I'll wait for a more user friendly app.

I found the UI a little hard to use so I wrote this vbs script and schedule it to run everynight: ''''READ THIS!!!: '''' ''''THIS SCRIPT IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. THE PERSON USING THE SCRIPT BEARS ''''ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE. '''' ''''You need to change "D:\Recorded TV" to suit your own computer, your MCE default ''''is probably "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Recorded TV" '''' ''''You can change the lines similar to "InStr(file.name,"_KSPS_") = 0 And _" to ''''suit your own needs (see code below) '''' ''''Put this code in notepad and save it with a .vbs extention. You can schedule it ''''to run every night while you sleep if you like with Windows Scheduled Tasks. '''' ''''Be careful about running this for the first time on a folder with lots of dvr-ms ''''files, you will get that many instances of this script running at the same time. '''' ''''PEZ 'strip commercials from recorded TV files: Dim System Dim Folder Dim File Dim Cutter Dim InFile Dim OutFile Set System = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set Folder = System.GetFolder("D:\Recorded TV") For Each File In Folder.Files 'skip tv programs such as public tv since they don't have commercials 'anyway or skip stations that don't cut out well, or they were already 'done (contains "NC_"), or you just skip thru the show anyway, etc: If InStr(file.name,".dvr-ms") > 0 And _ InStr(file.name,"_KSPS_") = 0 And _ InStr(file.name,"_KCDT_") = 0 And _ InStr(file.name,"_KSKN_") = 0 And _ InStr(file.name,"NC_") = 0 And _ InStr(file.name,"Nightly News") = 0 And _ InStr(file.name,"Jay Leno") = 0 Then Dim objShell Set objShell=CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Cutter = """C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox\DVRMStoMPEG.exe""" 'to work with DVRMSToolBox, file name must have quotes: InFile = """" & Folder & "\" & file.name & """" OutFile = """" & Folder & "\" & file.name & """" oFLeft = left(OutFile,instr(OutFile,"_")) oFRight = right(OutFile,len(OutFile)-instr(OutFile,"_")) OutFile = oFLeft & "NC_" & oFRight 'get OutFile without quotes to use with FileExists: length = len(OutFile) OutFileNQ = right(OutFile,length-1) length = len(OutFileNQ) OutFileNQ = left(OutFileNQ,length-1) 'get InFile without quotes to use with FileExists: length = len(InFile) InFileNQ = right(InFile,length-1) length = len(InFileNQ) InFileNQ = left(InFileNQ,length-1) 'if an infile and an outfile still exists from last run, delete the infile: '(this will delete the original version the next time this script runs) If System.FileExists(OutFileNQ) And System.FileExists(InFileNQ) Then System.DeleteFile(InFileNQ) End If 'if OutFile doesn't already exists for this show, then run the commercial stripper: If Not System.FileExists(OutFileNQ) Then objShell.Run cutter & " /if=" & InFile & " /of=" & OutFile & " /act=dvrmscutoutcommercials" End If End If Next

Hmm, well I guess the carraige returns didn't pick up, lotsa luck with that

Had the same problem as watkinsabob. Converted a 1hr program, removed commercials and the burn slowed to a crawl at 35% then just stopped.

Worked once or twice - sort of. Then never-ending problems - some of them nightmarish, like repeated system lock-up. Really a Hellishly unfinished program. And hard or impossible to uninstall ... Somebody be honest and just call this thing what it is: a low-level Beta program that NEEDS WORK.

I'm glad I read these comments before I downloaded and installed! I think I'll pass until I hear more favorable comments from the "guinea pigs"!

I think this is a great app with great support. I've had this app running on my Media Center for several months. Sure it doesn't have the slickest GUI but it's extremely powerful and gets the job done. And the support the author provides on his website definitely makes it worth it.

What is error 2869. i get it right when the installation looks like its finished. I'm installing the Windows Vista version.

This isnt the correct version for Vista, is it?

Where is the Vista versio?

I'm getting the "Do run" error as well. It works on the file for fifteen minutes, then completes and reports a "do run" error that it can't find some component, named only by a CLSID string. Disappointing.

even the vista version is full of bugs. deleted it.

yep am not even going to try it been there and have the ripped and blood stained t shirt to prove it

Just a quick question - am I correct in assuming that if I don't start/load the DVRMSFileWatcher, the program will just convert / manage files when I want to use the GUI. I don't want it running and converting unless I really need something from DVR-MS to MPG? Thanks....

No problems here! Running Win XP MCE 2005.

Actually, there are some minor issues. The software really isn't very user friendly at all.

I hope you guys are downloading these programs from the author's site. These files are way outdated. "user friendly" is relative, btw :P.

I can't get this to convert. I used it on XP fine. Vista's version doesn't seem to work. Please help!

This program really screwed up my media center...now the tv tuner doesn't work anymore!!! thanks whoever made this crappy program. Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appriciated.

I have Media Center Vista Ultimate, I wish we had this program for Vista users, I don't know why Microsoft couldn't just allow us to record without the commercials, especially when most of the time, if not all of the time, we watch tv with the commercials, we shouldn't have record them onto our hard drives too..which takes up more space.. there should be a choice, we should be able to choose record with commercials or record without commercials onto the hard drive. So we could really use a Vista Version for Vista users... Thanks.. Kimberley

I don't think "Microsoft" have the authority to do what you propose, kdunbar36. For one, advertising is what keeps television companies in business. There would be a royal out-cry (and they'd possilby stop providing services) if Microsoft gave people such an easy option of removing the Network's revenue streams. They'd be taken to court, for loss of earnings. What we do as individual users, installing end-products, is different. (Hence the program in question.)