What is the best muxer for the DVICO Fusion(ATSC)?

[-stattik-]

Here's the muxes I've tried and the results I've gotten:

CyberLink MPEG Muxer
VERSION: 5.0.0727

The .mpg files are jittery like there's slight pauses every few seconds.


CyberLink MPEG Muxer
VERSION: 5.0.0813

Same as the previous version of the Cyberlink Muxer.


ShowShifter MPEG PS Writer
VERSION: 3.12.0.2945

This one doesn't record anything, it just seems to hang.


ts muxer

Someties this creates .ts files and sometimes it creates 0kb files.



Microsoft DVR-MS muxer

This works great. The files are clean and they playback well. However, mencoder can't transcode it and I don't want to add another step of converting it to a mpg file. I'd like to keep the number of time I process a 7 gig file to minimum .


I'm running the latest DVICO drivers (3.00.02 I believe)


Anyone have any luck with any versions of the muxers?

[daphatty]

My results have been similar to yours with one exception; I haven't had 0kb .ts outputs since I tested the addition of ATSC a couple releases ago.

With regards to the Cyberlink mux, I do recall that having several versions installed on my HTPC seemed to be the cause of the jittery recordings. After rebuilding my HTPC the jittery recordings stopped. Unfortunately, I don't have access to my HTPC at the moment so I'm not able to share which version of the mux I am using. I remember working with sub on this and he mentioned that several versions of the Cyberlink mux would have issues such as the one you described. I'll see if I can dig up that info.

(I received your PM and thought it would be best to answer your question here in case other Fusion users had the same question.)

[-stattik-]

Hmmm,

The PC I installed the Fusion card on was just rebuilt the day before. Perhaps another piece of software is causing the jittery recordings. I worked with sub as well but I don't know which muxer he used at the time. CPU utilization is low and there's more than enough system resources. When reading in the DVR-MS-to-MPEG conversion forums, I read that the Cyberlink muxer has trouble with the AC3 audio in ATSC files but that may be a DVR-MS issue.

[Darx-starz]

Hmmm,

The PC I installed the Fusion card on was just rebuilt the day before. Perhaps another piece of software is causing the jittery recordings. I worked with sub as well but I don't know which muxer he used at the time. CPU utilization is low and there's more than enough system resources. When reading in the DVR-MS-to-MPEG conversion forums, I read that the Cyberlink muxer has trouble with the AC3 audio in ATSC files but that may be a DVR-MS issue.

I had no end of problems with the cyberlink muxes. When sub included dvr-ms that changed my pvr from a sometimes watchable into a allways watchable. You can convert your shows in a batch format from dvr-ms to .mpg. For me this is the best way. Why not do it overnight?

[-stattik-]

Darx-starz,

Thanks for replying. So you are saying that the cyberlink muxes worked for you but they weren't always watchable? I've been converting DVR-MS files manually because I can't find an automated way of successfully doing it. All the automated methods listed use the cyberlink muxer which can't seem to handle the conversion. I use the Moonlight M71 muxer and get great results but it's not an automated process currently. It seems that all Fusion users are using the DVR-MS muxer.

Currently, I do the following to each program:
- Manually convert to MPEG-PS
- Run commercial detection
- Cut and compress to Xvid

Ideally I'd like to limit the amount of times I'm processing an 8 gig file so if I can eliminate one of those processes it'd be great.

If you know of an automated way to convert dvr-ms to .mpg, I'd love to hear about it.

[garetmax]

I need help with my fusion hdtv5 lite.

I can't even get the cyberlink muxer installed. I downloaded the demo version of powerdvd but the muxchecker utility doesn't show any muxers.

What software do you use to do the conversion from dvr-ms to mpeg. Can you share your batch file with us?

Thanks