Shrink Microsoft recorded TV show

[tracie84]

How do I shrink a Microsoft recorded TV show I recorded from media center...say...from 9GB's to a size that will fit on a 4.5 GB DVD? I am a bit lost how to do this. It necessarily does not have to work on a DVD player...but on DIVX or something...or windows media player.

THANKS!

[Lester Burnham]

How do I shrink a Microsoft recorded TV show I recorded from media center...say...from 9GB's to a size that will fit on a 4.5 GB DVD? I am a bit lost how to do this. It necessarily does not have to work on a DVD player...but on DIVX or something...or windows media player.

THANKS!

What format are they recorded in - ie codec and container (if appropriate)?

[munir]

It depends on which DVD Authoring software you use, and perhaps the content of the show. For most shows (close to 5 GB and not too much motion), my flow is:

VRD to remove commercials and trim
Nero Vision to author and burn

If the file is larger, I prefer to add a DVDshrink before the burn

[Lester Burnham]

It depends on which DVD Authoring software you use, and perhaps the content of the show. For most shows (close to 5 GB and not too much motion), my flow is:

VRD to remove commercials and trim
Nero Vision to author and burn

If the file is larger, I prefer to add a DVDshrink before the burn

Bearing in mind that the transcoder in Nero Recode was developed as an evolution of DVDshrink by the author of DVDshrink - which is why it hasn't been updated in so long...

[rgpsmoker]

How do I shrink a Microsoft recorded TV show I recorded from media center...say...from 9GB's to a size that will fit on a 4.5 GB DVD? I am a bit lost how to do this. It necessarily does not have to work on a DVD player...but on DIVX or something...or windows media player.

THANKS!

Mmmm, not sure what your trying to do here, 9gb sounds awefly big... I use MCE 2005 to record tv as well and I record 1hr mini series... after cutting the parts I don't need using VideoReDo and saving as: *.DVR-MS file format

1hr3min of raw video takes about 2.2gb and after it is cut down about 1.6gb... they all end up to be about 44mins...

If you want to sacrifice Picture quality, you can set your recorder (MCE I assume) to a lower setting but I wouldn't do that myself....

Go here: http://thegreenbutton.com/default.aspx

Register & download the Utility "DVRtoWMV", this utility will convert a *.DVR-MS file to a *.WMV file format... has an MCE control panel and a stand allown app...

You may have to go into Win XP and allow "file extensions" to show in order to see each type of file... Start> control panel> folder options> View tab, un-check the box "Hide extensions for known file types"...

I see NO differance in Picture quality of a *.WMV file and that of *.DVR-MS files and there sizes are:

*.WMV= 0.5gb (540,000kb)
*.DVR-MS= 1.6gb (1,694,000 kb)

Can anyone explain to me why a file so small Looks the same as a file so Large? when played back... hehe...

Then I use Nero6.3 to save as DvD data on 4.7 or 8.5 gb discs, can fit 7 on a 4.7 and 14 on a 8.5 gb...

MCE works very well with WMV, has thumb nails for all files, auto starts disc, etc... slomo/fastmo works real good too...

[ihateacid]

the dvr-ms that comes from ur TV Tuner is saved to the mpeg2 container[dvr-ms] as most TV Tuners are mpeg2-encoders, they cannot encode in wmv. Also, they mostly record the video/audio stream, they dont compress it at all.

I came across many dvr-ms editor that helps to cut commercials, but i can say ur program is userfriendly and graphics friend with batchfile encoders, id probably buy this program after testing it

I usually convert dvr-ms to .vob to burn to DVD [ my computer takes about 1:1 compression time for dvrms->vob]

still, i like to use H.264, its a good codec and has a good compression rate, compression takes about 2:1 (2 hours for every 1 hour of video) though

Super (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html) is a good encoder program for a lot of stuff, it actually takes in dvr-ms container and spits out a workable output file, but i want to cut commercials, hence using this program

theres one thing that i want VideoReDo or another program to do, that is to extract the closed captioning/line21/metadata to a file and save as subtitle, im having some luck at doing this, but closed captioning sometimes is a scrolling textoutput, my subtitles would flash for 100ms b4 disappearing... :(

[phd]

Have you performed a Google search.

I remember running across programs that will perform the conversion. Don't remember the names.

I believe there were 1 or 2 freeware programs but don't quote me on that.