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I have a Hauppauge PVR-250BTV MPEG-2 encoder board. It's very handy for
encoding home movies straight to MPEG-2. Much simpler and quicker than
going to to the hard drive first and then re-encoding using TMPGenc, as long
as you don't want to edit much. I have used a trial version of Womble
simply to cut off the end of the MPEG-2 file with decent results. I need to
do this since I typically let the timed recording run a little longer than
the length of the video so I don't have to babysit. Then, if necessary, I
use DVD Shrink 3.2 to reduce the size of the project to fit on one disk.
Anyway, my question is this: Can I use the hardware encoding capabilities
of the PVR-250 to process video files already on my hard drive? If not, do
people think this is a decent idea for some enterprising programmer to
develop?
This box is the TiVo replacement I recently built that I mentioned a week or
two back in this newsgroup. I still don't use it for TV watching, much
prefering my two TiVo's, but it is a handy little video workhorse with the
MPEG-2 encoder board, IEEE 1394 input, and big hard drives. Now I can let
it run while I use my main computer for other tasks like writing this post.
In the next couple of days, I'll post exactly what I built, what it cost,
and where I got the parts. I have to thank Keith Clark for the basic design
of the box.
I have a Hauppauge PVR-250BTV MPEG-2 encoder board. It's very handy for
encoding home movies straight to MPEG-2. Much simpler and quicker than
going to to the hard drive first and then re-encoding using TMPGenc, as long
as you don't want to edit much. I have used a trial version of Womble
simply to cut off the end of the MPEG-2 file with decent results. I need to
do this since I typically let the timed recording run a little longer than
the length of the video so I don't have to babysit. Then, if necessary, I
use DVD Shrink 3.2 to reduce the size of the project to fit on one disk.
Anyway, my question is this: Can I use the hardware encoding capabilities
of the PVR-250 to process video files already on my hard drive? If not, do
people think this is a decent idea for some enterprising programmer to
develop?
This box is the TiVo replacement I recently built that I mentioned a week or
two back in this newsgroup. I still don't use it for TV watching, much
prefering my two TiVo's, but it is a handy little video workhorse with the
MPEG-2 encoder board, IEEE 1394 input, and big hard drives. Now I can let
it run while I use my main computer for other tasks like writing this post.
In the next couple of days, I'll post exactly what I built, what it cost,
and where I got the parts. I have to thank Keith Clark for the basic design
of the box.
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