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I have recently found a need to keep the quality i have currently but maintain a certain size. I believe my best option would be to be able to have Power Director automatically split my video into parts when i create it, or have a similar option when creating out put to a hardrive folder for a DVD or Blu-Ray.
Does anyone know of a way to have PD9 do this. The idea being simply put I have a video that is lets say 12GB. I transocode it and in the process of that conversion I specify a max file size of 2 GB and then PD9 Automatically creates another file incremented once that capacity is reached.
Any thoughts or ideas. I know i can probably do this manually, but that could end up being a royal pain.
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I am glad you have figured out the distortion problem but I haven't heard anyone say anthing about if they have heard a date for 2207 to be generally avaliable.
Has anyone heard when the next update for PD8 may be coming. I am just trying to figure out what i am going to do as i am atleast waiting for the WTV support i was told to expect in 2207.
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Well i finally got a good anser from support about my WTV questions. It appears they expect to have full support with build 2207. I saw some threads talking about it being distributed for testing, but do we have any idea on General Avaliability.
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Thx for the info, though I guess I could be clearer on what my rig is. Basically I have 3 systems, 2 of which Windows Vista Ultimate normally. One of the Vista machines i am running Windows 7 Ultimate RC7100 until the offical release in October. I am already upgradeing atleast one of my machines to Windows 7 for Media Center updates, and i might upgrade the other one as well.
To add a little bit more confusion to the mix I am running an HD PVR from Hauppauge. I am able to link it into media center using a software called DVBLink. It works great the majority of the time and is finally a none OCAP way of getting hd content into the comp. It is also a fully hardware encoder based solution for h.264 video encoding. I believe that is were the problem starts
Some are not aware but the *.wtv format was designed for a few different reasons one of which was to support newer video streams beyond Mpeg2. That is why the HD PVR can work and store it's video streams in *.wtv files. The HD PVR wasn't even an option with Media Center until the Vista TV Pack 2008 was released and added *.wtv file container. Windows 7 just brings it to the masses.
The convert to DVR-MS tool mentioned by Tony is an option as long as my streams aren't recorded over my HD PVR. My tunner card still has a Mpeg2 Encoder. The problem is that the convert tool doesn't work with the HD PVR recorded shows as the h.264 stream is compatiable with DVR-MS container. The key with DVR-MS is that there are already numerous tools out there for manipulating those files that would automate encoding and make it much easier. If i could stick strickly with it i wouldn't even be asking for an encoding tool for *.WTV files.
My suspicion is that if they do have some support for *.wtv files they aren't taking into account the possiblity for the different streams it can be a container for. I say that but last night i couldn't get it to work with a file recorded over my Tuner card as well so i don't know.
They show *.wtv as a supported media file when browsing for media, so i would expect it to work. If it doesn't work then I would expect them to fix it as it is shown in the supported media files. I am considering buying PD8 if they can get this going. I really am hopeing that GPU Accelleration can decrease my transcode times. I do have another companies video software that is able to manipulate *.wtv files but it is cpu only, and takes for ever to do a single video in HD quality.
Does support look at these forums, or is this purely community based.
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I have been using a different video editing tool for some time but would really like start to use PowerDirector. The problem is i need it to support WTV files. Every time I try to get a file loaded to convert I either get an error stateing
"Your system Doesn't support the import of Windows Media Center PC digital recording files (.wtv).
"Please contact your hardware provider if you would like to import Windows Media Center PC Digital Recording files into Cyberlink Powerdirector."
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I get an error after it trys to convert the file to a temporary mpg file
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