musings

I have been working with an evaluation copy of DVR-Studio Pro (which costs €75 to buy after the evaluation month expires). With it you can open the .ts file you have previously downloaded to your computer from the Personal Video Recorder (PVR) and quite quickly edit the programme - typically to remove advertising breaks.

What happens next is hair-pullingly frustrating. You should be able to load up a blank recordable DVD and then click one button to produce a copy of your edited TV programme on the disc. Does it work? Well, yes and - more often - no. Sometimes it just stalls at the ‘Authoring DVD’ stage. Sometimes it produces a silent disc. I have successfully transferred one half-hour programme with sound and vision. I thought I had also done a whole movie, but about ten minutes in, it went into a loop, endlessly repeating the same segment.

So - I give up! Life is too short and I don’t really need to archive programmes anyway. I have already accumulated quite a few on the Humax hard drive. It’s so easy to record stuff without any real thought as to when you are likely to find time to watch it.

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