SageTv, edit then Divx with Dr. Divx

[JFTiger]

First I'd like to say I love Sage Tv, its the best yet and hopes it just keeps getting better. Thanks for your time in creating it and supporting it.

My problem's are editing the files Sage makes, I've tried Ulead's Video Studio 4.01. 'I dont know where I got it just knows I have it.' Only to have it not work, so I tried the newest version. It edited the comericals but now I can't compress them to Divx with Dr.Divx.

I've tried Nadub, Virtual Dub, several others before and am lost so I would like something simple, which I think I found. Any susgestions on an editor that will work with DrDivx??? Or what settings I should use in Sage or where my problem is.

Fortuantlly I can use Dr.Divx straight from Sage. So for now I'm just archiving my shows with the comericals. Any help would be much appreciated.

JFTiger

[mandrake]

How do you use drdivx straight from sage I want to automate conversion of a few programs for my pocketpc and this would be great if it is automated

[olyar15]

Look at Womble MPEG-VCR. This allows editing out the commercials and saving the edited file without re-encoding.

[JFTiger]

I'm going to be a little too elaborate in my explation so forgive me if this gets redundant.

I launch Dr. Divx, Video File, open file from default Sage folder, and press next till it starts encodeing.
I've read that it can do batch encodeing's but not tried yet. The video comes out about 38% smaller than the 2Mb per hour or Extra Long DVD play. Just enough space left on a 700Mb CD-r to throw in a few extra favorite comericals

To throw in an answer to my own question, I've downloaded Honestech Video Editor 5.0, free to try for 30 days and $49 to buy, did a Dr. Divx of a comerical then edited it, it worked! 'Surprise' I'll keep playing with it and see if I find any bugs.

[ku71]

Why not use the editor that comes with the hauppauge card? It's simple, but it works.

[SHS]

olyar15 mean Womble MPEG2VCR the one he was for MPEG1 only

[rrussell]

Originally posted by ku71
Why not use the editor that comes with the hauppauge card? It's simple, but it works.

I could never get that piece of <euphamism> to work. It would pretend to be working, and then fold up and die right at the end. Hauppauge's tech support is <euphamism>, their software is even worse.

If I can use Sage to play Xvid files, I'd be in 7th heaven. But I have yet to successfully convert a video, so it doesn't matter either way.

[ku71]

see my windows media 9 recipe for automated hands-free operation

Martin

[videogeek]

womble mpeg2vcr works fantastic but you need the mpeg2 version (need to pay for it), not the trial mpeg1 version