VideoEditor - Edit your recordings within MP!

[Ralph]

Now you can edit and cut your files within MediaPortal just using your remote!

This Plugin was created to help getting rid of commercials, pre- and post recordings or whatever you like.
Meanwhile it has been improved and extended in it’s functionality.

Now VideoEditor supports editing recordings made with MediaPortal’s default TVEngine/TVE2 (Dvr-ms)
and recordings made with the new TVEngine/TVE3 (Mpeg or Ts).

When starting VideoEditor you can choose this option:

- Cut recordings
- Join recordings (merge several recordings to one big file)
- convert Dvr-ms recordings to Mpeg
- [b]convert Mpeg recordings to Divx (You need mencoder for that. --> Link at bottom of post

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Update 17.01.2008: New Version of VideoEditor added to SVN.

New features added:
- added support to cut Ts-files

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Update 02.04.2007: New Version of VideoEditor added to SVN.

New features added:
- support for Comskip-files:
if a Comskip txt.-file is found with the same name like the selected video file,
you can choose to load it.
VideoEditor will automatically generate the entries to Cutlist

- quick and easy to use mpeg to Divx conversion:
You need mencoder for that. --> Download link at bottom of post.
Please unzip the mencoder.exe into your MediaPortal folder.
If you got mencoder already on your system, you can change the path to mencoder in VideoEditor configuration.

Before Divx conversion starts you can change these settings:
Videoquality: low = 500 kbps; medium = 1000 kbps; high = 2200 kbps
Audioquality: low = 128 kbps; medium = 192 kbps; high = 256 kbps
Resolution: 320x240; 640x480; 720x576
All files will be converted as Single-Pass.


Fixed some limitations for Mpeg files:
- Mpeg files can be cutted with mutliple cutpoints, too
- added progress bar when processing Mpeg-files

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Here we go:



1. In the first screen you can choose your action.

2. Now browse your computer and choose the file you would like to edit.

3. In the next screen you can use pause and play button on your remote.
Use the slider for fast browsing through your file and the back and forward button to make 1 second steps.

4. Press start and end to mark the segment you would like to keep and press add.
This segment will now be added to the Cutlist.
You can repeat this several times to add multiple segments.
You can even edit your Cutlist entries. Just mark the one you would like to edit and open Context Menu (right click)

5. After that just hit the Cut-button and a new will be created and named as your original file was named.
This is important to get all information, that are stored in MediaPortal’s database like EPG-Description, when watching the video.
Your original-file will get the phrase "_original" added.

You will get a pop-up message when the file has been saved and you can choose to delete your original file, here.
The Cancel button can be used to stop this saving procedure.

6. Just go back (ESC) and choose another file you would like to cut.

That's it. Enjoy and have fun.


It took quite some time to get this work.

Special thanks to Kaybe and Brutus who did all the coding!
I just brought them together and helped with the screens.

If you have any suggestions or comments, please post here.
And I think it may help to keep Kaybe and Brutus motivated to go on, if they get some positive feedback.


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Update 18.09.2006: New release of VideoEditor out now.

New features added:
- convert Dvr-ms files to mpeg
- message box will ask you to delete original file after converting or cutting
- MP’s database will be updated after cutting a file

Please notice that actually only Dvr-ms files,
(your standart recordings made with MediaPortal) will take full advantage of all features!

Mpeg files actually only have limited features:
- no joining
- only the first entry (in and out) in cutlist will be used
- no progressbar

We will try to get all features work with Mpeg files, too.

To get the latest release you need a SVN-Snapshot: SVN-Snapshot
Only recommend for advanaced users!

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Update 12.09.2006: Dvr-MpegCut now is called VideoEditor!

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Update 08.08.2006: New release of Dvr-MpegCut out now.

new features added:

- when cutting/saving a file a progress-bar will show the status
- you can now join several files to one big file! -> only working for dvr-ms-files, right now.
Just choose cut or join on the first screen to activate the feature you would like to use.
The new big file will be named as the first file you choose.
The first-file will get the phrase _joined added.
- cutlist entries can be edited
Just choose the entry you would like to edit and hit the context-menu button (F9)
You can choose delete or edit this entry
- select an entry in cutlist and press OK, and you will jump to the start and end point of this entry
- in explorer now your shares are shown, too

bug fixes:

- current time issue has been fixed
- explorer issue after leaving cutscreen has been fixed

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Regards
Ralph mencoder060507.zip

[mzemina]

This is great news!

Mike

[Waltz]

That's really great, thanks alot!
This is the most important feature MP was missing so far IMO.

Will it be in SVN soon?
And how about the text - will it be added to the strings.xml? That would make translations much easier.

- Waltz

[ASiDiE]

This is totally cool... I am going to download it and update the skins so it works in my Dark metal Skin. Keep up the good work!

[Ralph]

Originally Posted by Waltz

Will it be in SVN soon?

EDIT: Don't know if it will be integrated to MP's Code?
Didn't talked about it, yet to any of the MP-Developers.
Right now, you will need SVN-Snapshot 05-05-2006 or newer to get it work.

Originally Posted by Waltz

And how about the text - will it be added to the strings.xml? That would make translations much easier.
- Waltz

We need to find out what we have to do,to get it to string.xml.

Regards
Ralph

[Waltz]

Well, just add the text you need to the english strings.xml file and upload it, from there it will take its way into all the other languages. At least I think that's how it works

[Dado]

Hi Ralph,
for the issue "Leaving Cutscreen (back button) sometimes causes MP’s Explorer not to be shown (Step 1).
Just need to press button down and you can browse your computer again to choose another file." you can try this into the OnPageLoad void (I have seen your first post of plugin files, so this maybe changed now...):

protected override void OnPageLoad()
{
            base.OnPageLoad();
            try
            {
                endungen = new ArrayList();
	endungen.Add(".dvr-ms");
                videoListLst.Clear();
                videoListLst.UpdateLayout();
	LoadItems();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox("Exception: " + ex.Message, "DvrCutMP - OnPageLoad");
            }
}

Can you post sources of this plugin?

Dado

[CHli]

Excellent ! Great Work !

[tklon]

Great!!! Thank you. Hope this plugin will be included in svn/0.2 final.

[Paranoid Delusion]

Ralph, Kaybe and Brutus

FANTASTIC just what was needed, will now be the most used Plugin I have. Will be editing all the recordings I have stockpiled oh so easily now.

Thanks and Much Appreciated for the WORK