Survey - What do you do after you record a show?

[dirtboy]

I was planning on starting to organize and compress all of these shows I have recorded and ran into a thousand different choices, so I figured I would see what you guys are using.

What compression do you use? XVID, Divx?
What tool do you use to perform the compression?
What (if any) filters do you run on the MPEG files?
What is your final desired result? Archive, or media server?
If you do have a media center, what kind is it? XBMC, Tivo home media, TwonkyVision, MCE 2005, etc.?

[tkgafs]

I'm pretty basic I just watch the shows then delete them I have never copied them to dvd or the like. I just usr GBPvr as a music jukebox and a means to timeshift TV programs

I stream the mpeg files to a hauppauge MVP connected to a flat screen and surround sound system

The most important functionality for me is the jukebox and music album plugins followed by the weather and comics for dilbert

tkgafs

[Huw]

I normally watch and delete, occasionally I will burn one to DVD to give to my brother, in which case I use ULead movi factory

[fini]

I use AutoGK on the files and then manually change the ending in the database from .mpg to .avi so they stay in the recordings screen.. I compress to xvid's @ about 700MB

fini

[sub]

I just watch and delete.

[dirtboy]

Quote[/b] (fini @ Nov. 21 2004,10:03)]I use AutoGK on the files and then manually change the ending in the database from .mpg to .avi so they stay in the recordings screen.. I compress to xvid's @ about 700MB

fini

Fini,
Do you run any filters on the files first to clean them up a little?

[lseats]

For the shows I watch every week -- Smallville, Lost, Andromeda, Enterprise, LAX, Ghost Hunters, and Proof Positive, I watch and delete.

For things that I don't have time to watch now, like when TV-Land had a "Hunter marathon" (the wife loves the show), I use Auto Gordian Knot to compress each hour from 3 gigs (6000 bitrate) down to 746 megs so six fit on a DVD. I have a Phillips DVP642 DVD player which plays AVI files with no special preparation.

AutoGK does a fantastic job of picking the correct filters and settings, so I don't do anything but queue up the files and let it run. I just wish the author were open to handling command line inputs so it could be totally automated.

If I want to burn a regular DVD for a friend or to play in another player, I use TMPGEnc or DVDSanta – both great programs with stupid names.

For the programs that the wife is not interested in watching (Twilight Zone, Outer Limits), I have a laptop sitting beside my desktop system and watch those shows while I am working.

It's funny -- before I built my PVR I only ever watched two shows a week (Smallville and Enterprise) -- Now I'm a GB-PVR addict!!! -- thanks a lot sub!

[davisj36]

I personally watch and delete shows. I do cut some movies/shows to dvd but since I have a 350 it limits my choices for compression. If I had a myself a MVP or something else that played divx I'd probally use that.

[DGK]

I use TMPGenc 3.0 XPress to edit out the commercials and then AutoGK to convert to avi. Since TMPGenc does a recode I tried to use nanopeg since its quicker but since TMPGenc can do batch I find it easier to do a batch of files when I am at work or sleeping. Plus I think its easier to figure out what to cut and what not to using TMPGenc.

[dirtboy]

I record all of the Good Eats shows and I like to keep them. After looking at a few tools mentioned here, it looks like I have also solve an old problem with volume.

I deinterlace, denoise, and normalize audio with VirtualDub-Mpeg2 and frameserve it over to GK. Then I use VirtualDub-Mpeg2 to encode the audio into mp3.

Probably not the best way, but it works!