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<blockquote data-quote="2BitSculptor" data-source="post: 793442" data-attributes="member: 65661">Re: eeee#1 -would LOVE this to happen ... I hope the broadcasters are listening... #2 -Don't know what this is.#3 - I have 2 HD Homeruns, I don't remember having issues with setting up, once SiliconDust and MediaPortal got on the same page 3 years ago. Now with the new cable-card devices from SiliconDust we have the same scenario.#4 - I don't know if I want conversion built in. Having used a second computer to schedule and manage conversions with Handbreak, I can tell you that a lot of CPU cycles is needed, and sometimes (for me) conversion of 1080 programs can take up to half a day to complete. I convert from the mpeg2 TS file to mkv with cropping and sometimes rescaling. I don't want my HTPC to be backed up in that process.#5 - even using a commercial editing program - I use VideoReDo TVSuite V4 - to remove commercials (the program runs a wizard looking for black frames between the program and commercials, then a best guess to mark it for removal) I still find it faster, and more reliable, to manually locate and mark commercials, then save the file for further processing using HandBreak. There are black frames all over the place within the content of the program itself that cause miss marked edits.a nice list though.Chuck</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2BitSculptor, post: 793442, member: 65661"] [b]Re: eeee[/b] #1 -would LOVE this to happen ... I hope the broadcasters are listening... #2 -Don't know what this is. #3 - I have 2 HD Homeruns, I don't remember having issues with setting up, once SiliconDust and MediaPortal got on the same page 3 years ago. Now with the new cable-card devices from SiliconDust we have the same scenario. #4 - I don't know if I want conversion built in. Having used a second computer to schedule and manage conversions with Handbreak, I can tell you that a lot of CPU cycles is needed, and sometimes (for me) conversion of 1080 programs can take up to half a day to complete. I convert from the mpeg2 TS file to mkv with cropping and sometimes rescaling. I don't want my HTPC to be backed up in that process. #5 - even using a commercial editing program - I use VideoReDo TVSuite V4 - to remove commercials (the program runs a wizard looking for black frames between the program and commercials, then a best guess to mark it for removal) I still find it faster, and more reliable, to manually locate and mark commercials, then save the file for further processing using HandBreak. There are black frames all over the place within the content of the program itself that cause miss marked edits. a nice list though. Chuck [/QUOTE]

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