Remove commercials and compress HD files with DVRMSToolbox
By Kevin C. Tofel 
posted Feb 13th 2006 4:32PM
posted Feb 13th 2006 4:32PM
Want to shrink down or
convert some of the DVR-MS high-def files on your WMCE
machine? How about stripping (no not that kind) commercials out of your favorite HD recordings with a $10 add-in?
Enter DVRMSToolbox, a 3.2MB download that lets you do that and more. The freeware application also converts your
television recordings to WMA or MPEG-2 as well, which gives you just a little more freedom from that WMCE box. The free
tool can be paired with the Dragon Global ShowAnalyzer for
ten clams, which helps remove those commericals and frees up your FF finger for other uses. No, we don't want to
know.
Dave Mathews tipped us off to the free app, and he provides some insight on how he's shrinking every 4.3GB episode of "24" into a 2.6GB file without commercials or losing any audio or video quality. Looks like Edgar and Chloe have some technical competition at CTU aside from Senator McCain!
Download info
Dave Mathews tipped us off to the free app, and he provides some insight on how he's shrinking every 4.3GB episode of "24" into a 2.6GB file without commercials or losing any audio or video quality. Looks like Edgar and Chloe have some technical competition at CTU aside from Senator McCain!
Download info
I love this software.
It would be perfect if it had a profile for Video iPods.
For those of us who record into transport stream (ts, tp), check out HDTVtoMPEG2 (http://www.midwinter.com/~bcooley/)
It can convert the files to mpeg, but it can also strip out commercials, subchannels, etc.
I used this program for a long time until I discovered VideoReDo. While it doesn't do the compression, it does strip commercials and handle HD .dvr-ms, .ts and .mpg files flawlessly. I pass on the resulting files over to AutoGK for the encoding when I need to.
Something to keep in mind for you purists out there, DVRMSToolbox uses the Elecard M71 muxer which doesn't make very clean mpeg's. Most of you probably woudln't even notice but run your resulting file through MPEG2Repair (http://users.adelphia.net/~mwilczyn/mpeg2repair/) and you'll see what I mean.