I've given up on making the inbuilt editing features of mythtv and nuvexport work properly. It doesn't seem to work past the first edit, emails to the mailing list have gone unanswered. So I'm going to try and manually cut out the adverts. I looked at GOPChop which looked rather promising, does anyone else have anything that allows me to edit without recoding?

Have you looked into Virtualdub? I believe it does this. Plus it's free.

I do know that when I've had to use it for re-encoding or converting, it's been extremely fast depending on the settings you use, so it may not be as much of a time dump as other programs.

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What format are you capturing in?

Whoops, sorry I forgot to mention my house is now Windows free. So it needs to be something either linux or OS X flavored. The files in question are MPEG2-PS....

mpegitor might work, but I haven't tried it yet.

A search for "mpeg split" on VersionTracker turns up a couple of OS X utilities that might work. I haven't personally used either.

-Mike

I've been looking for a good MPEG editor for MacOS X for about a year. Not found one yet.

If you want a visual editor, there is MissingMpegEdit, but it is a bit of a messy solution (it's an Applescript that combines command-line utilities with Quicktime player) and everything needs to be just right or it chokes.

Since I have a Windows box available I've given up and resorted to VideoReDo recently and despite the ugly interface, it works well.

mpegitor looks like it might do the trick although I'll have to burn a DVD to find out. Which brings me to another question, can you take an iDVD .dvdproj file and burn it on something else? I've not got a DVD burner on the iBook but a perfectly good one on the Myth box.

MPEG Streamclip is decent for OS X for being nearly free. (needs the Apple MPEG-2 component).

Sadly I still don't have an easy way of editing commercials from my ReplayTV MPEG2 files and burning them to DVD. Every way I try seems to enjoy retranscoding the files for no reason, usually into DV then back to MPEG 2. This leads to some horrible results since the source is interlaced to start with, but gets re-encoded progressive with no attempt to deinterlace.

I would expect that to be in Quicktime.

MPEG Streamclip is decent for OS X for being nearly free. (needs the Apple MPEG-2 component).

Hurrah! Finally a Mac MPEG editor that seems to work with everything I've thrown at it so far. Thank you!

Sadly I still don't have an easy way of editing commercials from my ReplayTV MPEG2 files and burning them to DVD.

Have you tried Sizzle for burning DVDs? You can just drag-and-drop a bunch of MPEG2 files into it and it creates a DVD disk image with a menu.

I'd just like to take another opportunity to make a plug for a program on the PC-side. DVDlab is, IMO, the best non-professional DVD creation software on Windows. Frankly, with the number and type of advanced capabilities it has, it could be pretty professional. I've tried a couple dozen (literally) DVD creation programs, and this is the only one that hits it just right AFAIC.

That, coupled with a wide variety of very good free tools, makes me thing that the PC may be better than the Mac when it comes to amatuer DVD creation.


ps-another good thing about DVDlab is that they've got a good pricing scheme going. I paid $79 a while ago, but $99 for the standard version is still good compared to the obscene prices of other software out there. I'm even planning on paying the other $100 to get the pro version. That's still good in comparison to something like Adobe's DVD creator, which is over $500.