Editing a recorded show?
This past week I recorded a sporting event and my wife actually showed up in a few seconds of the footage. We're talking about less than 60 seconds of a 2-hour recording. I'd like to save that 60-second clip somewhere and maybe share it (email, youtube, etc) with family.
I have Samba running so I can watch recorded content on my windows XP machine, so I \\mythtv_server\recordings. The first problem came when I clicked once on the mpg file - windows explorer did one of those very nice "an error has occured, would you like to send it to microsoft" things. I discovered that I could sort of ignore that error and copy the mpg file to a folder on my windows machine. My machine does the same thing with the now local copy.
If I try to open the mpg file media player starts and fails the same way explorer does.
Movie Maker also fails the same way.
I realize the file format isn't native to windows so I suspect I either need a codec or I need to find some other way to do this. Maybe I can archive the show to DVD and get what I need from the burned DVD.
Any ideas?
video clipping tool
This past week I recorded a sporting event and my wife actually showed up in a few seconds of the footage. We're talking about less than 60 seconds of a 2-hour recording. I'd like to save that 60-second clip somewhere and maybe share it (email, youtube, etc) with family.
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Any ideas?
I use AVIDemux for tasks like this, and I use it on my main mythtv system. You can find it at http://avidemux.org/ -- as well as linux versions, you can get a windows version of this tool. I like it because it's fast, it works with many other file formats than just .mpg, and it was easy to use with just a little experimentation.
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Michael Palmer
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Michael Palmer
What format does your MythTV
What format does your MythTV save in? Mine is saving as a .mpg file, and I move them over to my main XP machine and it plays just fine under Windows (I must have the 'right codec'). On another XP machine, it doesn't play in Media Player, but it does play as a file using a DVD player program (the raw .mpg file).
To chop a snippet of video (in XP), I use MPG2Cut2 - a free MPEG chopper found at http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Mpg2Cut2
MPG2Cut2 has no problem opening MythTV files, so I can chop chop chop at will.
To view, I use Video Lan
To view, I use Video Lan Client (VLC), it works ok with Samba. Also, there's mplayer for Windows that works too.
I have not used this but it
I have not used this but it looked interesting. If you try this out, be sure to report back on how it went.
http://mythhelper.sourceforge.net/
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis