Transcoding

todvrms.exe wtv to dvr-ms problem

hiphophampster — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:32:08 GMT

I've tried converting several wtv files to dvr-ms using the todvrms.exe program, but it is only converting the audio. I end up with a dvr-ms file which is about 1/8th the size of the wtv file and is strictly pure audio and no video. After reading through many posts, I tried some older versions of todvrms.exe and got version 1.0.0.9 to work, but it has a problem with reporting the correct video length. I get sound and video and VLC media player can play it, but other media players freak out over the incorrect reported link and won't play it. For example I converted a 28:34 long wtv file and the dvr-ms file reports that it's 7:23:34 long. BUT it's really not and the video plays fine in VLC. I'm still running on Windows VISTA x64. So, my questions are, why does the lattest version of todvrms.exe only convert the audio and nothing else? And why does the older version (1.0.0.9) work, but puts an incorrect length of file tag on it?

Am I overlooking something simple? Any help would be much appreciated!

Problem with activating account

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ToDVRMS updates

bigfry — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:30:00 GMT

Greetings

I've been using ToDVRMS extensively for the last couple years in my quest to convert all my physical media to WTV. I've been running 1.0.1.3 according to the version info on the file itself. Today I was updating all my conversion tools, and noticed that after the DTB update I was at ToDVRMS 1.0.1.6, and that it behaved slightly differently (in a good way). Is there a changelog somewhere that I haven't noticed? Any new command line options, or depricated options I should know about?

Thank you.

A couple of .avi transcoding questions....

marvin-miller — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:59:25 GMT

Hi folks; I'm running 1.2.2.2 on XP and up until now have been transcoding everything to .wmv format. I like the format because of the metadata that gets migrated with it. However, I have noticed that many .avi programs I've seen have, if anything, better picture with much smaller file sizes. So my question is, is there any other format (other then .wmv) that I can use for transcoding (such as .avi) that will keep the metadata info as it does with .wmv files? Thanks!

Deinterlace during transcode

Unclety — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:59:27 GMT

Is there a way to deinterlace during transcoding? I am using the babgvant.AdvancedActions.ConvertVideoFile and converting mpeg2 ATSC content to h264. I see the option to resize, but not to deinterlace. I also see where it allows me to specify a preferred filter, but I don't know how to control the filters listed as far configuring them to deinterlace. Is this possible? Anybody doing this? Anybody with success swapping out the filters to a different one?

converting divx .avi to .mp4

kjlavery — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:57:14 GMT

hi great program. I have been using it for years and it is very stable and functional.
I just bought an apple tv 2, and am trying to setup and automated way to convert downloaded AVI and MKV files to MP4 and then either add to itunes or move to the itunes automatically add directory. and all the atomic parsley stuff as well. I have been fighting with it for a few weeks. read just about every tidbit of info I can find on the subject. and just can't seem to get it to function. can you point me to a step by step instruction guide to set this up or can you whip up a custom profile to do this for me and email it to me. I have tried the profiles provided. and tried to make my own from the stock profiles. but none will work.

so just to clarify what I am looking for is a profile that will convert ( downloaded TV) divx .avi and .mkv files in T:\ and add to itunes or move to the itunes automatically add folder. and with the atomic parsley stuff as well...

Please help a guy out I am really wanting to get this to work.

Thanks in advance

I need help with ToDVRMS subtitles option

barnabas1969 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:27:14 GMT

Hi,

I'm pretty new to this and I could use some help. I'm trying to transcode BluRay movies to MPEG-2 with 5.1 channel, AC-3 audio. I also want subtitles as an option (not burned as part of the video, but I want the option to turn them on/off in Media Center's default player). So... I've decided to transcode the BluRay to MPG and then use ToDVRMS to convert it to WTV with subtitles.

I've managed to get DVD-quality MPG files by using DVDFab to convert the BluRay to DVD, then appending the VOB files together into a single MPG file using the DOS "copy /b" command, and finally using ToDVRMS to convert the MPG to a WTV file (with Title, release date, etc).

All of this works fine. The resulting WTV file plays fine, sounds fine, I get 5.1 audio, and I can fast-forward, rewind, skip, etc. I can also edit the metadata to add program description and other stuff, which is all very cool.

However, when I try to use the "-subtitles" switch for the ToDVRMS program, it runs for a few minutes and quits without much information about why it quit. The resulting WTV file only contains about 20 minutes of video, and it doesn't contain any subtitles that I can find. What am I doing wrong? I installed the Haali Video Splitter (I couldn't find Haali Video Sink, so I'm hoping that it's part of the splitter software).

I'm using the version of ToDVRMS that was downloaded with the latest publicly available download of DVRMSToolBox yesterday. Here's my process so far...

1) Run DVDFab 8 to convert the main movie on a BluRay to DVD with English subtitles and 5.1 AC-3 audio. This dumps the resulting VOB, IDX, and IFO files into a folder structure similar to that of a DVD. Each VOB is approximately 1GB, so a movie will have several of them. This part takes about an hour and a half. The on-board graphics in this machine aren't real powerful, so I think I could significantly trim this down by installing a better GPU that supports nVidia CUDA, but I digress...

2) Append the VOB files together into a single file using the DOS copy /b command. This part only takes a few minutes. Here's the command:
copy /b *.VOB my_movie.MPG

3) Convert to WTV with ToDVRMS. This part only takes a few minutes without the -subtitles option (and I get a good WTV file without subtitles), and only takes a couple of minutes with the -subtitles option before it fails. Here's the command:
todvrms my_movie.mpg my_movie.wtv -v -wtv -t "My Title" -r "07/11/2009" -y "04/07/2011" -subtitles

It runs for a few minutes and quits with a message about waiting for something (I'm not in front of my home computer at the moment, so I don't have the exact message). If I remove the "-subtitles" option, it works perfectly (without the subtitles). What am I missing???

I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64, if that matters. I'm doing this on my Desktop PC at home because I don't want to interrupt TV viewing on my main HTPC.

Also, if anyone knows of a program that will convert a BluRay to MPEG-2 with AC-3 audio in 5.1 channels in a High Definition format (720p or 1080i), please share the name of the software. I'm trying to get this process down to as few steps and as little time as possible. My process above runs for less than 2 hours (without the subtitles option). I can also fully automate my process so that all I have to do is double-click a shortcut on the desktop. I'm not interested in any process that runs for more than 2-3 hours, or has so many steps that it's too confusing or difficult to implement. I want simple and efficient. However, I would prefer HD quality. My goal is to use the MPEG-2 and AC-3 codecs so that these files will play natively in Media Center and on extenders (mine are Linksys and HP extenders... no XBoxes here).

Thanks for any input.

todvrms stopping half way through

bitofhog — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:25:56 GMT

Every time I run todvrms on a 4.5 gig file it stops around 2.3 gig and says Done waiting. I have tried increasing the -w parm but it still stops. I have been trying to convert a vob file created by DVD shrink into DVR-ms so that my extenders will be happier. If I let DVD shrink split the files into 1 gig chunks it seems to work but then I end up with 4 files and have to watch one at a time.

I know you probably don't work on this very much. Is the source code out there some where and I could just try to figure out what is going wrong?

Any help would be appreciated. Media Center should just support vob files and we wouldn't have to mess around like this but it is what it is.

Bit

Running Todvrms On A Wtv File Producing Bad Output

TonyXL — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:12:47 GMT

Hello,

I've tried running Todvrms on some of my wtv files and the resulting dvr-ms files won't play and have a smaller file size. I've got a short sample here (USA clear QAM mpeg2):

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AJ82V1ZO

Any chance you could check it out? I was using version 1.0.1.4.

Thank You!!

-Tony

Transcoding - does anyone fancy a challenge?

sheppy99 — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:20:31 GMT

I've got a couple of DMA-2100's lying around that I'd like to drag into the modern age and use with H264 / AAC-LATM sound WTV files. So far I've found and installed transcode360 and media browser. Unfortunately Mencoder / FFMPEG doesn't support LATM sound. What I'd like to do is have transcode 360 put the file to be transcoded into a folder and then use a folder monitor to kick in VideoReDo which supports the standards and happily converts things. Does anyone know how to hack transcode 360 to do this? For that matter does anyone know of a better way?

WMV 5.1 audio track

mikep — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:12:20 GMT

Is this the right place for an Antipack question? I'm trying to figure out why 7MC won't play the WMV 5.1 audio track, but WMP does. Is this the sort of thing Antipack or AC3 Filter could fix?

Need help converting for Windows Phone 7

robteaboy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:35:02 GMT

Please help. I am trying to convert a show from a WTV file for Windows Phone 7 and Zune. I started from the "convert for Zune (no commercials)" profile. Normally I get nothing, but sometimes I get ~ 20 minute conversion from a 1 hour long show with the wrong aspect ratio. (Maybe I only get a conversion after a reboot? I haven't tested this theory).

In short, here are the results

No changes to "convert for Zune (no commercials)" - ~20 minute 640x480 file from an hour long 1280x720 show. (results logged below)

in the cbrzune.prx file, changed the instances of 640 to 800 and 480 to 450. - results, no output (logged below)

Changed to the wmvhd.prx profile - results, no output (not logged below)

changed back to the original crbzune.prx file and configured the output for 800x450, results ~20 minute 640x480 file from an hour long 1280x720 show. (results logged below)

I originally tried saving this in a word file with screenshots, but they didn't copy over.

Thanks in advance

-------------------------------------------------------

Goal: have DVRMSToolbox and ShowAnalyzer scan each show for commercials. For a few select shows, cut commercials and create a WMV (with WMA audio) for Zune/WP7.

Step 1: Set up commercial scan using the Ben Drawbaugh guide in Engadget HD:

http://hd.engadget.com/2009/10/22/how-to-automatically-skip-commercials-in-windows-7-media-center

Step 2: Install AC3Filter

Step 3: set up process condition for your show in question

Test 1

Partial success

19 Min (should be ~45 min file)

144MB

640X480 (loss of aspect ratio should be 16x9 not 4x3)

WMVfile

log below-----

Finished Commercial Detectection

Duration = 01:14:55.7803293

Add extra data to context

Config: <root><data name="PrxPath" value="cbrZune.prx"/></root>

Duration = 00:00:00.0050007

Convert a Video File

ValidateOutputPath

OutputFile = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_02_01_58_00fileprocess.wmv

Begin conversion of C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_02_01_58_00.wtv to C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_02_01_58_00fileprocess.wmv

VideoFormat: WMV AudioFormat: WMA TargetContainer: WMV Resize: False CL: 0 CR: 0 CT: 0 CB: 0 W: 320 H: 240

Load preferred filters

Added MPC - Audio Decoder Filter (babgvant) to the graph

SBE Source file

Found Video Pin

WTV file, add PBDA Decrypt

Add MS Video Decoder

Wire up Null Render to decoder

Run the graph to get the correct frame size

Use stock stream map

Remove Null Render

Add Sink Called

Sink is null, we need to add one

Add WMV

Configure WMV writer with C:\Program Files (x86)\DVRMSToolbox\\prx\cbrZune.prx

Set output path to C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_02_01_58_00fileprocess.wmv

Added DSCutter filter

Configure DSCutter: mt = 73646976-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 st = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ucs = False

Add Interval: 1182880 - 649580650

Add Interval: 12175052910 - 12775623420

Add Interval: 16676910250 - 18376552060

Add Interval: 34279147100 - 36078402920

First pin on the muxer didn't accept video, try the second

Finish Video Render

Found Audio Pin

WTV file, add PBDA Decrypt

Try connect MPC - Audio Decoder Filter (babgvant)

Found an unconnected pin

Connected pin

Added DSCutter filter

Configure DSCutter: mt = 73647561-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 st = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ucs = False

Add Interval: 1182880 - 649580650

Add Interval: 12175052910 - 12775623420

Add Interval: 16676910250 - 18376552060

Add Interval: 34279147100 - 36078402920

Add Sink Called

Handle Audio

Finish Audio

WTV file, add PBDA Decrypt

----SKIP---

29.55%

29.57%

29.58%

Stalled

29.58%

---skip---

Stalled

29.58%

100%

Video file conversion complete

Duration = 00:30:44.4951171

Total Duration = 01:45:40.2954480

------------TRY 2------------------------------

I looked at the crbzune.prx file and I found where the 640x480 resolution is hard coded

I changed everywhere I saw 640 to 800 and 480 to 450.

Renamed the file "cbrZunerobwp7.prx"

Edited the profile for "Convert for Zune (no commercials)"

Configured the "Add extra data to context"

Changed the Prx Path to my "cbrZunerobwp7.prx" file

-------------------RESULTS----------------

Video Conversion Failed. Log file below

Finished Commercial Detectection

Duration = 00:59:41.7184050

Add extra data to context

Config: <root><data name="PrxPath" value="cbrZune.prx"/></root>

Duration = 00:00:00.0510030

Convert a Video File

ValidateOutputPath

OutputFile = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_11_30_01_58_00fileprocess.wmv

Begin conversion of C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_11_30_01_58_00.wtv to C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_11_30_01_58_00fileprocess.wmv

VideoFormat: WMV AudioFormat: WMA TargetContainer: WMV Resize: False CL: 0 CR: 0 CT: 0 CB: 0 W: 320 H: 240

Load preferred filters

Added MPC - Audio Decoder Filter (babgvant) to the graph

SBE Source file

Found Video Pin

WTV file, add PBDA Decrypt

Add MS Video Decoder

Wire up Null Render to decoder

Run the graph to get the correct frame size

Use stock stream map

Remove Null Render

Add Sink Called

Sink is null, we need to add one

Add WMV

Configure WMV writer with C:\Program Files (x86)\DVRMSToolbox\\prx\cbrZune.prx

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Action did not complete successfully

Total Duration = 00:59:46.0856569

--------------comments--------------------

Also tried it with prx file WMVHD.prx file with no luck and similar "Execption has been thrown by the target of an invocation" error

------try 3-----------------------------

Going back to my the standard "convert for zune (no commercials)" file

Selecting "resize" in the Convert a Video File

Width = 800

Height = 450

Convert latest Red Eye to dvrms to give DVRMSTOOLBOX a new file

-----results-----

same as last time... a truncated file with the wrong aspect ratio

LOG BELOW

Finished Commercial Detectection

Duration = 01:50:12.9442388

Add extra data to context

Config: <root><data name="PrxPath" value="cbrZune.prx"/></root>

Duration = 00:00:00.0700040

Convert a Video File

ValidateOutputPath

OutputFile = C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_05_02_00_08 - DVRMSfileprocess.wmv

Begin conversion of C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_05_02_00_08 - DVRMS.dvr-ms to C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_05_02_00_08 - DVRMSfileprocess.wmv

VideoFormat: WMV AudioFormat: WMA TargetContainer: WMV Resize: True CL: 0 CR: 0 CT: 0 CB: 0 W: 800 H: 450

Load preferred filters

Added MPC - Audio Decoder Filter (babgvant) to the graph

SBE Source file

Found Video Pin

DVR-MS file, add BDA Decrypt

Add MS Video Decoder

Wire up Null Render to decoder

Run the graph to get the correct frame size

Use stock stream map

Remove Null Render

Add Sink Called

Sink is null, we need to add one

Add WMV

Configure WMV writer with C:\Program Files (x86)\DVRMSToolbox\\prx\cbrZune.prx

Set output path to C:\Users\Public\DvrmsToolbox\Output\Red Eye_FNCHD_2010_12_05_02_00_08 - DVRMSfileprocess.wmv

Added DSCutter filter

Configure DSCutter: mt = 73646976-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 st = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ucs = False

Add Interval: 4946191250 - 6446439970

Resize is handled by the Asf Writer, ignoring setting

First pin on the muxer didn't accept video, try the second

Finish Video Render

Found Audio Pin

DVR-MS file, add BDA Decrypt

Try connect MPC - Audio Decoder Filter (babgvant)

Found an unconnected pin

Connected pin

Added DSCutter filter

Configure DSCutter: mt = 73647561-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 st = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ucs = False

Add Interval: 4946191250 - 6446439970

Add Sink Called

Handle Audio

Finish Audio

Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Action did not complete successfully

Total Duration = 01:50:16.9134658

-delete-

robteaboy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:34:59 GMT

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robteaboy — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:10:33 GMT

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Handbrake version 0.9.3

jelwood — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:30:52 GMT

For those using a HD-PVR with SageTV that want to re-encode to the Ipod, or other format, check out the latest version of Handbrake. They added all the ffmpeg libraries to Handbrake and this means that is can read virtually any file type now. I've been using Handbrake over the last few days to convert the HD-PVR files into the IPod format and it's working really well.

For those interested you can use the GUI. Or, if you want to integrate it into an applicaiton like Dtb you can use the command line version. Below is the command line I'm using.

"C:\Program Files\Handbrake\HandBrakeCLI.exe" -i {inputfilename} -t 1 -c 1 -o {outputfilename} -f m4v -X 720 --crop 0:0:0:0 --decomb -P -e x264 -q 0.39 -a 1 -E faac,ac3 -B 128 -R 48,0 -6 stereo -D 2 -x level=30:cabac=0:ref=3:mixed-refs=1:analyse=all:me=umh:no-fast-pskip=1 -v

A really easy way to comeup with your command line is to enter the Handbrake GUI and use it to configure all your settings. Then tell Handbrake that you want to add your show to the Queue. Then from the queue manager you can select an option to export the queue to a batch file. Inside the batch file you will see the command line option for your show.

This is an interesting open source alternative to DirectShow for those that have issues getting Directshow working.

MPG (from .tivo) to DVR-MS conversion problem?

hoyty — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:20:03 GMT

I have a Series 3 TiVo that records from FIOS via cable card. I am using KMTTG to grab show / movie from TiVo and decode to MPG. I can play the MPG file via Pictures and Videos fine either on the MCE or via 360 extender. I then attempt to convert to DVR-MS with todvrms. It appears to complete successfully. When I attempt to play the resulting file via Recorded TV it plays audio for a few seconds and the video almost immediately freezes. It plays blips every 10-15 seconds but nothing useable. I am using todvrms 1.0.1.4 from the 1.2.2.1 dvrmstoolbox install. This is on Windows 7 MCE. Below is the output of -v in case it has anything useful in it. I grabbed a 10 minute clip from HDNet to test with and can make it available for download if it would be useful. I am pretty sure I used to be able to do this with OTA content but I know that was a few versions ago of todvrms.

MPC-HC MPEG source loaded
File source set
Source filter GUID: 1365be7a-c86a-473c-9a41-c0a6e82c9fa3
Find Video pin
Add AttributeEnable Filter
Connect source to AE pin
Connect first pin
Add VA Filter
Connect stream/video pin to mpg analyzer
Get input on SBE
Input pin obtained, connect it
Connected Analyzer pin
Grab the connected pin
Grab the connected pin
Got audio pin
Write MetaDataItem WM/ToolName = todvrms
Write Attributes
Start Recording
Run the graph
8.34%
14.77%
21.47%
28.13%
34.94%
41.99%
49.05%
56.02%
63.13%
70.05%
76.59%
84.31%
90.27%
96.4%
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99.99%
99.99%
99.99%
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Stop recording
Stop the graph

Help Converting Video

W1nks — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:54:37 GMT

I'm trying to convert one of my recorded videos using the "High Quality MKV no Commercials" profile. It goes through the scan progress for commercials. It got about to 12% then jumped to 100%. Is that normal? Then I got this:

Processing actions, this may take some time!!
Current Affinity: 15 System Mask: 15
Getting MetaData
Run Profile = hqmkvnocomm
ProcessId = 324
DvrmsToolbox Version: 1.2.2.0
Throttle DVRMStoMPEG
FWThrottle: C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\MonsterQuest_HISTORY_2010_03_17_19_58_00.wtv
WaitTime: 5 PollTime
Waiting to process file
Queue file
Duration = 00:00:01.0000013
Waiting for available worker: 3/17/2010 10:49 PM
Worker allocated: 3/17/2010 10:49 PM
Wait 0 min from date time in the "WM/WMRVEndTime" metadata property
WM/WMRVEndTime = 3/17/2010 9:03:01 PM Now = 3/17/2010 10:49:57 PM Continue = -01:46:55.9939348
Continue
Duration = 00:00:00
Find Commercials in file
Commercials xml file exists
Duration = 00:00:00.0100001
Extract SRT from file.
SRT already exists
Duration = 00:00:00.0100000
Convert a Video File
ValidateOutputPath
OutputFile = C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Test.mkv
Begin conversion of C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\MonsterQuest_HISTORY_2010_03_17_19_58_00.wtv to C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Test.mkv
VideoFormat: x264 AudioFormat: Native TargetContainer: MKV Resize: False CL: 0 CR: 0 CT: 0 CB: 0 W: 0 H: 0
Added MPC - Video decoder (babgvant) to the graph
SBE Source file
Found Video Pin
File needs decrypt filters
WTV file, add PBDA Decrypt
Add MS Video Decoder
Wire up Null Render to decoder
Run the graph to get the correct frame size
Remove Null Render
Calc dimensions: width=0 height=0
New dimensions: width=0 height=0
Add Sink Called
Sink is null, we need to add one
Add MKV
Set output path to C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\Test.mkv
Added DSCutter filter
Configure DSCutter: mt = 73646976-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 st = 32595559-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 ucs = True
Add Interval: 7276489170 - 9681338330
Add Interval: 15757074670 - 18056538500
Add Interval: 23449092330 - 25745082750
Add Interval: 30153289830 - 30953309000
Add ColorDMO
Connect to video encoder
Configure x264 encoder
x264 input W: 720 H: 480 FPS: 30.00
Connect to muxer
Finish Video Render
Found Audio Pin
WTV file, add PBDA Decrypt
Added DSCutter filter
Configure DSCutter: mt = 73647561-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71 st = 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 ucs = False
Add Interval: 7276489170 - 9681338330
Add Interval: 15757074670 - 18056538500
Add Interval: 23449092330 - 25745082750
Add Interval: 30153289830 - 30953309000
Add Sink Called
Handle Audio
Finish Audio
Add SRT source to graph
Error in Do Work - Unspecified error

Action did not complete successfully
Total Duration = 00:00:03.4081263

EDIT - Here is another try:

Processing actions, this may take some time!!
Current Affinity: 15 System Mask: 15
Getting MetaData
Run Profile = hqmkvnocomm
ProcessId = 2256
DvrmsToolbox Version: 1.2.2.1
Throttle DVRMStoMPEG
FWThrottle: C:\Users\Public\Recorded TV\MonsterQuest_HISTORY_2010_03_17_19_58_00.wtv
WaitTime: 5 PollTime
Waiting to process file
Queue file
Duration = 00:00:01.0440598
Waiting for available worker: 3/17/2010 11:17 PM
Worker allocated: 3/17/2010 11:17 PM
Wait 0 min from date time in the "WM/WMRVEndTime" metadata property
WM/WMRVEndTime = 3/17/2010 9:03:01 PM Now = 3/17/2010 11:17:45 PM Continue = -02:14:44.1495142
Continue
Duration = 00:00:00.0020001
Find Commercials in file
Create Analyzer: Automatic
Using trial version of ShowAnalyzerSuite. There are 30 days left in the evaluation. Go to www.dragonglobal.org to purchase the full version.
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1.05%
1.18%
1.31%
1.44%
1.57%
1.7%
1.83%
1.96%
2.09%
2.22%
2.35%
2.47%
2.6%
2.73%
2.86%
2.99%
3.12%
3.24%
3.37%
3.5%
3.63%
3.76%
3.89%
4.01%
4.14%
4.27%
4.4%
4.53%
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Total Duration = 00:16:05.0371970

Anyone know what's wrong? Also I'm using Media Center on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. This is my first time using the program. Thanks!

Request for help - can you shed any light on this?

carlosp_uk — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:48:50 GMT

Andy

Sorry to trouble you but I'm tearing my hair out on this one and would really value your advice.

I've been using Allessandro Angeli's technique for getting the IWMWriterAdvanced2 interface of an Asf Writer, using IServiceProvider, so that a network sink can be added to it. I've had no trouble with this code up until just a week or so, when it suddenly began failing unexpectedly at the line in bold:

DirectShowLib.IServiceProvider pServiceProvider; //
pServiceProvider = (DirectShowLib.IServiceProvider)currentOutputFilter;
DsGuid dsgWMwriterAdvanced2 = DsGuid.FromGuid(new Guid(GUIDs.IWMWriterAdvanced2));
IWMWriterAdvanced2 WMWriterAdvanced2 = null;
object o = null;
hr = pServiceProvider.QueryService(dsgWMwriterAdvanced2, dsgWMwriterAdvanced2, out o);
DsError.ThrowExceptionForHR(hr);

HRESULT 'Interface Not Registered'
ErrorCode: -2147221163

Can you think why it would suddenly begin giving me this error? It has worked flawlessly until now.

Carl

PS: References:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd390985%28VS.85%29.aspx

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.video/browse_thread/thread/36b154d41cb76ffd/c571d6ef56de11af?#c571d6ef56de11af

Some questions about transcoding WTV, based on your source

carlosp_uk — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:39:35 GMT

Hi Andy

My name's Carl, I'm the developer of RemotePotato which is a free app I've recently coded for the community to (temporarily?) fill the gap left behind by WebGuide on Windows 7. (http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/t/83946.aspx)

First up, thanks for the great tools and contribution to the community, your work has really inspired me. I even based a small portion of RemotePotato on your code to grab a WM/Picture thumbnail from .dvr-ms metadata, so thanks again and please accept a donation. (your work is, of course, credited in the app)

I have a question. One of the things I'd like to add is 'on the fly' transcoding of WTV to WMV, which could then be streamed out over the Internet to remote users. This would be over the web to a browser, probably a Silverlight client.

I looked into WMF, but it doesn't yet support .wtv unfortunately. (http://blogs.msdn.com/mf/archive/2010/02/18/mfmanagedencode.aspx)

Therefore, I've had to delve into DirectShow, as a bit of a newbie. So I've been looking in earnest at your source for DTb and then DVRMSTOWMVHD. I'm writing in C#, using managed DirectShow (directshownet) Here's a working filter graph FWIW:

Unfortunately, however I build a filter graph, whether it be via Intelligent Connect, or with every filter and pin manually added, my graph aborts when run. If I load the generated GRF into graphedit and try to run it, it errors out with "at least one of the pins... is already connected." Manually right-clicking on the asf_writer and toggling the WMProfile cures this, and then graphedit will correctly run the graph and convert the file. Disconnecting/reconnecting the pins within graphedit does NOT help,the AsfWriter filter has to have its profile re-configured as I just described.

I sense the issue is to do with correctly configuring the streams of the AsfWriter to match up with the output from the video decoder. An audio-only stream will transcode okay, by the way. (e.g. if I use your cbr128.prx it's fine and produces an audio-only .wmv file)

I note that in the release notes for DVRMSTOWMVHD you seem to mention a similar issue (stopping the graph, disconnecting / reconnecting the pins), so I'm wondering if you might be able to help. 20 hours on this problem now and I'm nearly ready to give up.

How would I go about achieving WTV->WMV transcoding functionality in managed code for my c# server app? Preferably some bytes[ I can send out over a socket to a client. Is this even achievable in managed code?

Carlos

PS: I did try to use DVRMSTOWMVHD to convert a .wtv file but it seems to go into an infinite loop, enumerating CLSIDs of filter names to console. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the source to compile as it seems to be missing all the header files in the main project? (I installed the DirectShow base classes from the windows SDK as required) Do you have the full source available, including headers?

PPS: My end users will ALWAYS be running windows 7, so it's safe to assume all related APIs and win7 DirectShow updates exist

Problems with todvrms.exe for WTV to DVR-MS

philibuster — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:21:10 GMT

I have been trying to get todvrms.exe to convert my wtv files to dvr-ms. I'm on a Windows 7 x64 Professional machine with an NVIDIA 9400gs video card. I installed the latest DVRMSToolbox. When I run todvrms on a wtv file, I get audio only on the file, and it is only about 100 MB for a half-hour video. Is there a splitter that I'm missing? I got the latest todvrms package and installed the splitters. Is there anything I need to check?

Off topic a little but hopefully challanging - Bulk video conversion

sparky21 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:33:28 GMT

On my Media cntre is a large number of video files, ripped by DVD shrink, and stored as .VOB's with the .IFO files etc. Of course being DVD shrink files each is about 4.78 GIGs and has the Dolby 6:1 sound format. .VOB's aren't liked by Microsoft Medai Centre and this coupled with my need to save a little space, can anyone comment on a conversion tool that would:

1. Convert the files into something else, whilst not turning the sound into stereo rather than the 6.1 of today?

2. Let me change the res to 16:9 format at 1024 x 768, when being converted.

3. Do many many files in a batch process moving through my hard drives through a batch process so I can set when going to bed and reset for the next day when at work, to have the tool work when automatically, so to speak.

(The batch process part is not mandatory, just a nice to have, if I can get the other two)

Finally, on the aspect of saving space I would like to get the resulting file down to 1.5 GIG's or smaller, hence meeting the need to save space.

Very very grateful for any leads to tools that can handle this task.

Sparky

PS I note the advertisement for AVS video Converter, but it seems ruled out due to the fact that the output seems to only offer stereo.

Crash while writing WTV file

Richard Berg — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:40:48 GMT

todvrms.exe c:\video\1555430_cut.mpg c:\video\test.wtv -d -v -wtv This crashes somewhere in the AttributeEnable.ax filter. I don't have source or symbols so the function names shown for that image are bogus. 0:009> gn (18a8.13ac): Access violation - code c0000005 (first chance) First chance exceptions are reported before any exception handling. This exception may be expected and handled. eax=00000000 ebx=80040211 ecx=000013ac edx=07c7fc38 esi=05e37f88 edi=05407f20 eip=00b55be9 esp=07c7fc1c ebp=59d99a28 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na pe nc cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00010246 *** ERROR: Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for C:\Users\Public\Apps\todvrms\AttributeEnable.ax - AttributeEnable!DllGetClassObject+0x32b9: 00b55be9 8b08 mov ecx,dword ptr [eax] ds:002b:00000000=???????? 0:017> k ChildEBP RetAddr WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong. 07c7fc34 59d9adb8 AttributeEnable!DllGetClassObject+0x32b9 07c7fc78 07c7fcb8 quartz!CMediaSample::GetProperties+0x91 07c7fc98 00b533fd 0x7c7fcb8 07c7fcc0 1000c204 AttributeEnable!DllGetClassObject+0xacd 00000000 00000000 MpegSplitter!DllRegisterServer+0x67d4

Subtitle Extraction with .WTV files?

spsmartguy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:14:01 GMT

Has anyone been able to get some sort of subtitle extraction from WTV to .srt (or similar) working in Windows 7? I was naive and thought CCextractor would work out of the box, however I was sorely mistaken. Long story short, I need to be able to extract captions out of all WTV files that I record.. so that they are searchable. I tried to convert WTV to DVRMS with the official Windows 7 tool (menu option) and WTVwatcher but this does not help with making CCextractor work, and I get the same result, no captions. So far, unfortunately, I've only been able to find people with theories on how it could be done, without finding anyone who's actually been able to do it. I'm not a programmer, and don't have time to become one for this issue. Unfortunately, this is a deal-breaker for me right now with Windows 7, if this doesn't work, I have to suck it up and downgrade back to Windows Vista... something I really was hoping I wouldn't have to do with my new solid-state drive.

mkv to .wtv dvb subtitles?

thezigpc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:57:47 GMT

Is there any way to pipe the subtitle tracks of a mkv into a wtv file? How would I go about converting the subtitles into a 'dvb' compatible format?

Cut commercials and convert to mpeg

xoom999 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:17:39 GMT

The default profile for this is converting the show without any audio. There is audio in the recording. Standard install of DVRMStoolbox I am running Win 7 Pro x64-Bit