Spaced Out ::

I had recorded a short clip off the TV using my Humax box - once your Hummy is connected to a network, with UPnP switched on, it’s easy enough to copy standard definition recordings straight off the box on to your PC (see previous post). These come off as .TS files, but this time I had a load of aggro trying to archive them to XVID. Not sure why and VLC wasn’t playing the file either. Anyway, after a fair bit of head scratching this workflow seems pretty good:

1. Split (demux) the .TS in to constituent audio and video streams using ProjectX
2. Combine (mux) the streams in to an .MPG (using .MP2); use MPEGStreamClip
3. Transcode the file using Mencoder
4. Play using SM Player Portable