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I have downloaded the Transport utility as per Humax Blog. What do I do with it? I can put it on a pen drive then what? Assistance please.
grahamlthompson – 6 hours ago »
Can you enlighten us a bit more. What Transport Utility ?
http://myhumax.org/wiki/index.php/Editing_SD_Recordings_and_Creating_DVD_Video
Sorry. “The transport stream is wrapped in a BDAV containter file (.m2ts) and will not be able to be processed by regular video editors which have not been programmed to deal with this format. We can convert the .m2ts format into the plain .ts format with a little command line utility program: m2ts-rip. This utility can be downloaded here: http://myhumax.org/blog/?page_id=314” This is what I meant.
Nessie,
I assume you are editing video. The HDR saves files in a certain format which most video editing software doesn’t read.
The utility allows you to convert a file recorded on the HDR to a different more common format that is more readily understood by common video editing software.
You upload the HDR file to your PC and then run the utility on the HDR file.
The resultant output will be second file in another format. You can then take this file and manipulate it with your video editor.
HTH
Dino
All the video editing packages I have will work with the .ts files from a Foxsat-hdr
Not Free
Nero Vision, VideoredoTVsuite, Sony Vegas Movie Studio, Magix Movie Edit Pro
Free
TSmuxergui, Windows Live Movie Maker and a host of free conversion packages.
A command line utility requires you to open a command window (DOS) and type a series of commands after running the programme.
/? Usually lists the commands that it uses.
That’s an excellent point. It may well be that the OP doesn’t really need the utility.
Thank you both very much. I presume I use DVDflick first then edit. I am at last getting somewhere putting programs onto DVD for archiving.
You are very kind to help learners like me.
Nessie,
I think the instructions you are following may be old and possibly incomplete as you have noticed. DVD Flick is a DVD authoring package.
I’m still not quite sure what you are trying to do.
I’ve not done any DVD authoring for a couple of years or so, but when I did, it was a multi-stage process and I remember having to convert the HDR files first using a command line utility, then editing them to remove adverts using an HDTV to MPEG2 process and then using DVD Flick to burn the files as DVDs.
I was intending to use this to archive programs to DVD, but it was complicated back then and the result didn’t (to me) justify the effort. It was easier to buy a big disk and when that got full, use the network facility to archive programs to external storage.
Things have moved on since then and as grahamlthompson said, there are software packages which can do a more complete job of producing DVDs.
Have you read the son_t article ‘Converting your PVR recordings to DVD’ on this site.
http://myhumax.org/blog/?p=364
If you are trying to make a physical DVD from an HDR, that would be a good start.
Dino.
Edit your files first to remove ads and top and tail any content you don’t want. Videoredo is superb for this. Each file will become a title on your DVD accessed by a menu.
Videoredo TV Suite combines the editing and DVD authoring into a single user friendly package and is very fast as it only recodes at edit points.
Trial version
http://www.videoredo.com/en/Download.htm
The h264 version will edit HD recordings made without encryption using non-freesat mode. About an hour of HD can be burnt to a DVD blank using the AVCHD codec, but you need a blu-ray player to play these back.
Then use a DVD Authoring package to create the DVD.
DVD Flick is a free DVD Authoring package
Normally these give you a choice of burning directly to disc, creating a DVD image file (normally .iso) or a DVD folder. You can burn the latter two to a DVD blank using IMgburn (Free).
Using this you can mount an iso image so it plays back on a PC just like a DVD disc (handy for checking before burning) or to store lots of DVD’s on a usb drive you can play back on a PC
Let me explain, I am a volunteer at a National Trust property. There is often an item on local TV news which I record on my Humax Foxsat. The wardens would like to see some of these and other programs relevant to our site. Country file for instance. I used to have a Hard drive recorder with DVD before we went digital and that was easy to record from hard drive to DVD directly
I am trying to do the same again so the site can have a DVD for their files.
Videoredo TVsuite is the easiest to use to chop out bits of a recording file. You can rapidly skip the contents marking bits you want to keep and output these as a single file. When you have amassed about 4GB of these, simply open each file in VRD and add it to a DVD compilation. Select whatever Menus you want and stick in a DVD blank and let the programme burn the DVD.
You can do the job with free software, it will take lot more effort and time though.
Thank You very much for all your guidance. I hope I will not need to trouble you again.
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