Manually compress ms-dvr (1 Viewer)

[bzamfir]

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Hi,
I have the following problem. I made few tv recordings, and then I went to video editor to manually cut out the part before and after actual show (tv recordings starts / ends few minutes before / after the show, to be sure I get everything.
But after I succesfully edited the video, it doesn't shows up actually in My TV in recorded shows, so I cannot re-encode them to something else (wmv oe mpeg2). So I have to remain with a 20 min show taking almost 1 GB space.
How can manually re-encode (compact) that?

Thank you.

 

[Ralph]

Hi bzamfir,

VideoEditor will update the tvdatabase after cutting a file, so you're file should be still in the recorded TV - module.
VideoEditor updates the length and the data the file was last edited.
So it will now have another date than the original recording.

BTW, you can also use VideoEditor for converting your recordings to mpeg.
Just open VideoEditor and go to the cut-entry in the upper left corner.
There you can change the function you would like to use:

- cut: cut a video file
- join: join two recordings together
- dvr-ms to mpeg: convert a dvr-ms file to mpeg

Regards
Ralph

 

[bzamfir]

Thank you. However, videoeditor did not updated my recording entries in TV. But I edited the file twice, first time I just cut out the wrong side, my luck I selected not to delete the original file. I guess the issue was VideoEditor updated the tv recordings with wrong edited file, which then I manualy deleted from Explorer, maybe this is why the original recording wasn't shown in TV recording anylonger.

Thanks,
Bogdan