When using Windows Media Center to record movies and shows you quickly fill up your hard drive. Windows Media Center saves the files in it's own format - DVR-MS - which is a format in DVD quality with metadata embedded.
One way to save space is to convert the files to a compressed format, eg. DivX. Of cource the quality drops, but you save space and you might find that DivX is good enough for you.
There are several tools that convert DVR-MS to DivX. I have tried many and found one that i like a lot. This tool is called Dr. DivX. The latest version is free! Download it from this site: http://labs.divx.com/DrDivX. You might have to install the latest DivX codex as well. Download the free version here.
When uoy have installed it, open the application, choose file from the top menu, click open and select a file, then click Encode. The prossess starts as a separate thread, so you can repeat the prosess to add more files to the queeue. If you click on the batch-buttom, you will se a list of files and the progress.
If you have recorded a movie or program with commercials, it is possible to remove them with a tool called DVRMSToolbox. This program also converts DVR-MS to different formats, eg MPEG og WMV. When I want to remove commercials I first use this tool and convert my recording to MPEG, then I use Dr. DivX to convert the MPEG-file til DivX. The tool is availible here: http://www.download.com/DVRMSToolbox/3000-11444_4-10444368.html. The tool should be quite straight forward. It's availible in a GUI verson and in a command line version (so you can script it).
Good luck!!
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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