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Hello people! I am still around after all! Yes. I missed to return as early as I had promised but I bring good news for a speedy solution to convert your microMV recording in viewable DVDs. I posted the details in the MPEG-TS post. Basically I am reporting in the fact that I could not do much with v...

Hi to everyone, Sorry for not honoring the promise to comeback by Septmber with a new updated series of tools for using the microMV format in the Mac OS X platform. One of the reasons is that I was waiting for the new version of VLC to arrive but I soon found out that the rewriting of 8.0 had brough...

Actually I would advise a different strategy for your problem. I have had similar experience in the past, with a new version of QT not working properly [in fact was in regard to to the MPEG2 plug in that was not working any longer after upgrading from 6.4 to 6.5 (or may be was 6.3 to 6.4?)]. I conta...

Hi, I could not agree more with your frustration with Sony. I reached the same conclusion after repeated premature failures with TV sets, infolithium batteries etc. Similarly to your case I will not be shopping Sony products any longer. As to the lossless conversion I'll be updating the threads at t...

Hi again, Well I certainly will not be crying for the loss. Let's think about it. Today norm for manufacturers is to replace digital appliances every year or 6 month and on top of it new IEEE standars have been recently chosen to replace MPEG2 (MPEG TS) with the H264 multimedia standard for the next...

Well I figured that having some pretty good news I would start a new thread rather than having people go through all the posting of the old one. While I still needto fine tune vlc usage for the conversion of the .m2t files obtained with DVHSCap videocapture I found that it is possible to use a new u...

Hi everyone, I believe I had briefly mentioned that I was able to have Titanium 6 recognize the microMV camera. Last time I had no tried to see if in fact a fully functioning capture was possible by mean of Titanium 6. Finally I tried this past weekend and unfortunately it did not work. The only thi...

Sorry DJ, I had not checked back in a while! OK I guess you are right I should try to summarize and organize the procedures presented in the postings. I cannot undertake the job now and probably will take me 'till summer (I am planning a 3 week vacation and hopefully I'll be testing some more of VLC...

Hi everybody, I was wondering if at this juncture DJ, zorglub or other wonderful people at videolan could get their hands dirty and hammer out some instructions to get the optimal use of vlc 0.7.1 to transcode out pescky m2t files! Thank in advance to all of you who will venture there and to the man...

Well. we had to be patient for a while but I finally was able to use the latest release of VLC to transcode the m2t files captured from my microMV camcorder with DVHSCap and obtain VOB or MPEG4 (.mp4) files. While I have not been fully successful in the mp4 transcode (mostly I suspect my capture was...

Hi, In realtion to the zero bytes issue using DVHSCap. It may have something to do with an initial short take! Try to move the tape to the next scene and stop/start the video capture at start finish of scene since this will help also with the subsequent steps of the editing! If you are coming back t...

Hi, I finally got to work out the problems I got stuck with trying to use mpv files with iMovie. Apparently the culprit of the sudden inability to import additional mpv files in iMovie was due to the security/system or QT upgrade that apple released in the last 10 days. My MPEG2 player component was...

Hi all, I share the concern of others that we are taking a path outside the interests of vlc so I will try to contact DJ or other qualified developers to see if we should stop posting here the microMV and MPEG TS topics. However I would like to thank Pstdenis and Imo for their partecipation and addr...

Hi everyone, In the previous post about Project X settings I had advised to set a value of 12MBPS for video. I actually found out that is too high for use with DVDpro, iMovie etc. since the upper limit on these programs is 8Mbps. Project X will still have 9.6Mbps for the initial sequence but I did n...

Hi again, Here finally with a final account on how to convert the m2t file generated using DVHSCap to capture video from Sony microMV camcorders. Remeber to download and install Project X as detailed in previous posts. -Once the compile is done (remember that apparently there are problems with G5) l...

Hi everyone!, I tried the compile of Project X and following the directions given by pstedit (at comcorderinfo.com) I was able to obtain the x.jar to execute the java applet. It genreates a mpv video file and a mp2.wav audio file. After some tweaking I have been able to demux a m2t file obtained wit...

Hi everyone, I just got acroos a post in an another forum where the author claims that Project X (at http://www.lucike.info/index.htm) can be used to produce a demuxed file (starting witrh DVHSCap m2t) with audio and video suitable for import in FCP. Apparently the program is available as source cod...

Hi again everyone, Foolowing Big Ben advice I tried play a bit with the m2t file obtained with DVHSCap. While vlc (vs. 0.6.2) can do a decent screen playback of this file the program gets stuck displaying the following message when I attempt to transcode: main debug: CPU has capabilities AltiVec FPU...

Hi BigBen, And thank you very much for your advice. I am using vlc version 0.6.2 and I noticed that to access the stream output settings I have to use the 'open DVD' and then select file from that window (and then activate the advanced options) since with 'open file' command I do not get any option....

Hi, I guess this post is in DJ competence. Since we seem to have found a solution to the capture from microMV devices I wanted to ask if either vlc or vls are customizeable to save the output. I was just looking in vlc preferences and noted that video and audio decoders have all the codecs necessary...