i haven't had a chance to look at the recording on my mce yet...

try replacing the ConvertDVRMStoMPEG action w/ the DVRMS2MPGStreams action (make sure to check MuxVideoForComskip) in the profile that you are using to process the DVR-MS

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I couldn't get the other muxer to work reliably either. I found a different muxer (moonlight), but it doesn't work with ATSC files. It seems like a pretty good muxer so it may fix the sync problems you're having... You could try dl it and rending a dvr-ms to mpeg using it in graphedit. If it fixes your problems let me know and I could wrap it in an action for easy use.

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commercial detect is done using a program called comskip.exe; it was developed for myth tv, and ported to sage... but it will detect commercials in any mpeg file...

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we all use the same dll for doing the conversion (dvr2wmv.dll), so the results are going to be the same... because dvr2wmv is a closed tool (at least as far as I know), there's nothing that I can do to fix the inner workings...

if you can you get conversion to work in graphedit, take a screenshot of the graph and post it with the xml representation of the graph and I can try to put that into the action that converts to wmv.

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Anyone got this error? I get this whenever the app tries to splice a DVR-MS file. It happens on every file I've tried to process at about the same point (30-40%).

I've tried 'em all, and dCut, DVRMSEditor, and DVREdit also hang when trying to splice a DVR-MS file.

I can't seem to get the log to attach to this post, and I've tried in IE and Firefox. MIME type is not permitted?

Everything is fine until the very end:

Read file 'D:\temp\video.txt'
Cut commercials out of DVR-MS file
Span created - 0, 184.951433333333
Span created - 365.531833333333, 1060.8598
Span created - 1121.28683333333, 1161.12663333333
Span created - 1273.0718, 1651.18286666667
Span created - 1862.59406666667, 2577.0745
Span created - 2783.8811, 3219.08253333333
Span created - 3349.21253333333, 3402.13206666667
Span created - 3519.88303333333, 3889
OutputFile=D:\home\Coyote\Desktop\test.dvr-ms
Begin splice
.66%

...tick tick tick...

44.25%
45.16%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
45.23%
DvrmsCutOutCommercials has hung, ending process

Thanks in advance!

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If you can't see the fnord, it can't eat you.

unfortunately that's a very common error for me. I know that babqVant is trying to find a work around.

Randy

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A lot of people, including myself, are convinced it'sa bug in the SBE. I know it almost always occus at the first splice. IF i tweak the start and end of the clips a little, it will splice, but then I'll get a hang at the next splice, and so on.

I think it might occur whenever there's some kind of irregularity in the file's timecode. I'm capturing with a ATI software AIW encoder, so I know I get the occaional dropped frame.

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If you can't see the fnord, it can't eat you.

I've found that sometimes I can get it to splice but loading the original file in a dvrms editor and cutting the front and back ends off of the file, basically creating a new file. Most times that new file can be processed, but ocasionally it doesn't work, and it needs to be sliced on cut at a time manually.

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unfortunetly, detecting the hand and ending the splice is the work around... I've tried adjusting the splice times, but it always hangs somewhere.

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figured out why firewire recordings don't work...

they're not encrypted, so there's no need for the decrypt filter... try using the graph below...

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babqvant,

OK, I must be doing something wrong then.  Here's what I did.  From the dvrmstoolbox installation directory, I ran the following command:

C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox>DVRMStoMPEG.exe /gf="D:\Recorded TV\fire.xgr" /if="D:\Recorded TV\Fire Baseball Tonight_ESPNHD_08_06_2005_22_01_52.dvr-ms"
Processing actions, this may take some time!!

It then just returned to a command prompt, with no error, but nothing happened.  Additionally, when I try to open the .grf file you sent me, GraphEdit returns an error saying "Some Files that the filter graph uses are no longer available"

So, I looked into the .xgr file and saw that the output for the Cyberlink Dump filter was set to f:\ I changed it to the the root of C and tried pointing the xgr file directly with the above command..again, no go, same issue.

I also went into Graphedit and saw that I do have the filters for the Cyberlink MPEG Muxer and Cyberlink Dump filter installed, so I don't know that the issue could be there.  For the dump filter, the moniker is as follows:

@device:sw:{083863F1-70DE-11D0-BD40-00A0C911CE86}\{3E8868CB-5FE8-402C-AA90-CB1AC6AE3240}

For the MPEG Muxer it is:

@device:sw:{083863F1-70DE-11D0-BD40-00A0C911CE86}\{BC650178-0DE4-47DF-AF50-BBD9C7AEF5A9}

I matched up the values against cslid values in the .xgr file, and it looks fine to me.  What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks!

Given the following values, what exact command shold be issued:

Graph to be used:  D:\Recorded Tv\fire.grf
TV recording to convert:  D:\Recorded TV\Fire Baseball Tonight_ESPNHD_08_06_2005_22_01_52.dvr-ms
Output file:  I don't care for now...the root of C would be fine.

Thanks!

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use the grf file with the /gf arg

so...

C:\Program Files\DVRMSToolbox>DVRMStoMPEG.exe /gf="D:\Recorded TV\fire.grf" /if="D:\Recorded TV\Fire Baseball Tonight_ESPNHD_08_06_2005_22_01_52.dvr-ms"

I got that to work on my MCE...

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BabqVant,

Nope, that does not work on my system.  Would it be related to the error I get when trying to open the .grf file in Graphedit?  I've confirmed that I have the filters that are in the graph, but for some reason it wont open saying that the required filters are no longer present.

 

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you get that error because graphedit can't locate the input file...

you can open the xgr in notepad and edit the path to point to the file on your system, then open the xgr in graphedit and try to run it.

dvrmstompeg will swap the input and output files in the graph with the one's specified in the cmdline...

what does the tool output when you run it with that graph?

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were you able to get it working?

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