2005-04-15, 04:21 AM
There is a simple hardware solution to watching MPEGs away from PCs: buy a cheap DVD player with MPEG-4 capability.
I have bought a Tevion from Aldi in Australia for A$99 and MPEGs recorded by my Dvico/Ultraview Plus DTV card and simply copied as data to a DVD+RW play perfectly on it. The Tevion even has a card reader! I note that JVC has just released a model that also plays MPEG-4, but it is dearer: A$149 at a discount chain. Presumably such things are available in the UK.
But I have not yet found a quick and dirty method of deleting commercials from my TV MPEGs. I am used to Audio Cleaning Lab in which it is painfully simple to remove unwanted parts of WAV files, such as applause. I have tried making chapters with Power Producer but can't get them to be zapped. Slow is not the word for it. TMPGEnc also seemed to be taking all night to analyse an MPEG. What I want is a simple, preferably no cost or low cost, MPEG editor that lets the user select areas to be deleted, not skipped, and then resave the edited file. Any recommendations?
I have bought a Tevion from Aldi in Australia for A$99 and MPEGs recorded by my Dvico/Ultraview Plus DTV card and simply copied as data to a DVD+RW play perfectly on it. The Tevion even has a card reader! I note that JVC has just released a model that also plays MPEG-4, but it is dearer: A$149 at a discount chain. Presumably such things are available in the UK.
But I have not yet found a quick and dirty method of deleting commercials from my TV MPEGs. I am used to Audio Cleaning Lab in which it is painfully simple to remove unwanted parts of WAV files, such as applause. I have tried making chapters with Power Producer but can't get them to be zapped. Slow is not the word for it. TMPGEnc also seemed to be taking all night to analyse an MPEG. What I want is a simple, preferably no cost or low cost, MPEG editor that lets the user select areas to be deleted, not skipped, and then resave the edited file. Any recommendations?