VideoWave - cannot open files

[Duncan Huggett]

On 18 March I wrote:

 

"I am rather new at all this. I wante to burn video saved onto my harddrive from a USB TV source (WinTV from Hauppauge). However, when I try to open the MPEG2 file (which works in Windows Media Player 9 and Windows Movie Maker) by dragging from media selector to the storyline and I get the following message: one or more of the files you are trying to add cannot be edited and have not been added. I have checked using GSpot that I have the right Codecs installed and I have had no problems installing EMC9 or registering components. My PC is a Dell with Celeron 2.4Ghz and 1GB RAM. What am I doing wrong?"

 

After a lice chat session with Roxio, I have discovered that EMC9 does not appear to be able to handle DVB MPEG2 files created by Hauppauge WinTV. The only work round this is to use 3rd party software and convert the files to a format EMC9 can handle (eg MPEG2 or AVI etc). I got an excellent programme called SuperC from the follwoign site which seems to be able to convert anything to just about anything:

 

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

 

I cannot vouch for speed etc but it does the job and I am happily burning WinTV programmes saved on my hard drive to DVD using SuperC to first convert the file and then EMC9 to do the rest.

 

Hope this helps others....

[Duncan Huggett]

Maybe it is because I am using a Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T digital terrestrial TV stick and not a card? Anyway, a work round has been identified.... but if anyone knows of a way to sort this directly using EMC9 - I'd be glad to hear of it.

[grandpabruce]

On 18 March I wrote:

 

"I am rather new at all this. I wante to burn video saved onto my harddrive from a USB TV source (WinTV from Hauppauge). However, when I try to open the MPEG2 file (which works in Windows Media Player 9 and Windows Movie Maker) by dragging from media selector to the storyline and I get the following message: one or more of the files you are trying to add cannot be edited and have not been added. I have checked using GSpot that I have the right Codecs installed and I have had no problems installing EMC9 or registering components. My PC is a Dell with Celeron 2.4Ghz and 1GB RAM. What am I doing wrong?"

 

After a lice chat session with Roxio, I have discovered that EMC9 does not appear to be able to handle DVB MPEG2 files created by Hauppauge WinTV. The only work round this is to use 3rd party software and convert the files to a format EMC9 can handle (eg MPEG2 or AVI etc). I got an excellent programme called SuperC from the follwoign site which seems to be able to convert anything to just about anything:

 

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

 

I cannot vouch for speed etc but it does the job and I am happily burning WinTV programmes saved on my hard drive to DVD using SuperC to first convert the file and then EMC9 to do the rest.

 

Hope this helps others....

 

I hope that it does, too, but I have never had a problem with the captured files from my Hauppauge card, using WinTV 2000.