I got a new laptop and want to edit lets say a part of a football game that I recorded, when I go to import the file into Windows Movie Maker, the file doesnt show up as a file that I can edit. THe type of file that it is saved ends with "dvr-ms". I just want to know if there is a way that I can edit these files that I recored off my DVR for scerenshots and highlight stuff. Im a n00b and need some direction, whats my best option to edit the dvrd stuff.

1/21/2006 10:16:17 AM

Go to http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ and get this program called Gspot. You can open the file with this to determine what file format it is (probably mpeg2). What kind of DVR did you copy off of anyhow, and how did you do it? I know its supposed to be impossible off of the TWC ones.

1/21/2006 10:21:28 AM

I got the TV tuner (thats my DVR internally in the cpu) through Dell and just set it up with the non-digital cable.

1/21/2006 10:29:15 AM

Are you using Windows MCE?

1/21/2006 10:31:40 AM

yes, well Media Center

[Edited on January 21, 2006 at 10:34 AM. Reason : v]

1/21/2006 10:33:19 AM

See this thread:

http://www.xpmediacentre.com.au/community/showthread.php?t=969\

[Edited on January 21, 2006 at 10:44 AM. Reason : thread]

1/21/2006 10:39:57 AM

Ahhh, when you said DVR, I immediately thought settop box style.

1/21/2006 10:45:24 AM

awesome thanks everybody.

1/21/2006 10:52:15 AM

along similiar lines, I am editing video that I captured from my motorola stb over firewire (comcast doesnt disable it in my area yet).

Right now I am using VirtualDubMod to deinterlace the file and remove the black bars on the top and bottom, and recompress. ETE is like 6.5 hours for one hour of standard definition video. Anyone know of a utility that will crop video quickly without having to recompress?

1/21/2006 11:55:55 AM