Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!) (5 Viewers)

[vid1]

I have the HVR2200 and can watch HD Freeview..... What do you mean by it not being HD?

Freeview broadcasts in both DVD quality (700 pixel) and HD quality (1080 pixel) format. This card only receives the DVD quality broadcast.
At least I thnk this is the case as the card records in MPEG-2 and not H.264

The MPEG-2 bit refers to the card's onboard hardware encoding of Analogue. For digital it receives/records the transport stream which in NZ is H.264.

Hauppauge Computer Works Ltd : WinTV-HVR-2200 MC
says
"Record digital TV programmes in original MPEG-2 quality"
and H.264 is not mentioned anywhere

 

[kiwijunglist]

Hauppauge Computer Works Ltd : WinTV-HVR-2200 MC
says
"Record digital TV programmes in original MPEG-2 quality"
and H.264 is not mentioned anywhere

it is definitely HD
it has hardware mpeg2 encoding
there are no tv cards that i know of that do that with h264
it is fine for watching and recording freeview HD H264 TV

your computer however must have either a grunty cpu or a good gfx card to decode and display HDTV

 

[vid1]

Hauppauge Computer Works Ltd : WinTV-HVR-2200 MC
says
"Record digital TV programmes in original MPEG-2 quality"
and H.264 is not mentioned anywhere

it is definitely HD
it has hardware mpeg2 encoding
there are no tv cards that i know of that do that with h264
it is fine for watching and recording freeview HD H264 TV

your computer however must have either a grunty cpu or a good gfx card to decode and display HDTV

The WinTV-HVR 4000HD is specified as HD on the Haupage site and writes H.264. I am using this card at present but it is not dual tuner.

 

[kiwijunglist]

i think hvr2200 is good choice, it is dual tuner, hybrid dvb-t & analog, freeview HD, PCI-E, low profile, used by a lot of NZer's so should have plenty of support.

 

[Nato]

has anyone been able to trimt he ads out of recordings and re-join any freeview recordings? if so , which software and how? ( I have been trying to do this for a while now with not much luck)

 

[rekenaar]

Hi Nato

At first I tried the VideoEditor in MediaPortal, but I was not quite happy with it.
Now I am using TVRedo TV Suite and I am very very satisfied with it. Not free though...

 

[kiwijunglist]

if you need to convert .ts -> h264 .mkv or other format then handbrake is free and awesome.
from what i have read its better to convert to the desired format and then split/edit the video

 

[Nato]

Hi Nato

At first I tried the VideoEditor in MediaPortal, but I was not quite happy with it.
Now I am using TVRedo TV Suite and I am very very satisfied with it. Not free though...

Thanks for the reply but videoredo does not work with our .ts stream.

if you need to convert .ts -> h264 .mkv or other format then handbrake is free and awesome.
from what i have read its better to convert to the desired format and then split/edit the video

Yeh I have done some research on this and am trying to use it currently , but I never get any sound

 

[kiwijunglist]

works fine for me on c4 rips
these are my settings

Start with Basic:Normal preset, then customise as follows

Output = mkv

Pic settings:

Crop = Auto
Anamorphic = None
Filters = Decomb (This will deinterlace if necessary automatically)
Detelcine = No
Deinterlace = No
Denoise = None
Deblock = off

Video:

Codec = h264
FPS = Same as source
Grayscale = No
2 Pass = Yes, Turbo = Yes
avg bitrate = 1500
constant qual = 0%

Audio:

Source = Automatic
Audio codec = AAC
Mixdown = Stereo
Sample rate = Auto
Bitrate = 160
DRC = 1

EDIT: I use mkvmerge to split recordings post handbraking

 

[shacknasty]

tv3 and c4 are dead easy. its tv1 and tv2 with the aac sound that gets annoying.

theres probably better ways to do it now, but my process is

h264cutter to cut out the ads
dgavcindex to demux the audio
megui with avs script to encode video
winamp to encode/convert the aac audio
megui or avidemux or whatever else to join back together.

after using h264cutter on tv3 or c4 shows, you should be able to just fire them straight into handbrake cause of the ac3 audio track. you could also use it for tv1 and tv2 but probably have to do the audio seperately.

pity that tvnz didnt keep the ac3 stream after the olympics