MythTV's advert removal clipping feature is nice, do you have similar in MP? I would prefer mpeg encoding (I know you can convert though). The other killer for me was the dvr-ms encoding. I dabbled with MediaPortal before my MythTV project and I have to say that I liked it overall but stability was the main problem (perhaps these problems have been addressed). I had a lot of fun setting up my HTPC with MythTV and I must concede that it works fine most of the time but there are a few things that niggle me about it (never seemed to be fully working). I'm currently in two minds between using mediaportal OR MythTV. If they still have that, I strongly recommend trying it out before you embark on the freeware approach.First of all hello all, i'm new here but have used MediaPortal briefly. VideoReDo had a free trial which was fully functional for some time period.

(Sorry, the names of these apps have faded from memory.) I would have kept that setup had it been just for me, but it wasn't a solution I wanted to teach (and re-teach.) to my father over the phone. Locating and testing the various freeware programs for each stage took a few evenings, but I did come up with a satisfactory solution. The catch is it takes at least 2, and maybe 3, different applications to accomplish this it's a multi-stage process. However if you have enough computer skills to get MediaPortal working for recording TV shows, you are quite capable of burning DVDs of these shows for free. It was fairly easy to teach him to do it on his own, and subsequently this has saved me lots of 'tech support' time. The reason I was willing to pay for the software is that my father wanted to learn how to do it. ts file is not changed, it is just provides the source data for the project.)

ts file, make your edits, and burn the DVD - it's very straightforward.

It isn't free, but it gives me 'one-stop-shopping', and I'm happy to say it works very well.

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