Switching off Power VCR's file splitting

[ntl customer]

I'm getting rather peed off with Power VCR's splitting of recorded video into 600Mb segments. For large recordings which are over that, the file gets split into 2 parts and when you join them back, there are a few seconds missing which means that the recording suddenly jumps

Power VCR is a good programme for recording as you can schedule stuff to be recorded digitally (a la Sky+) to keep or watch later. I'm only using this because my VCR is knackered - the sound quality is really crap and in mono!

However the splitting into segments really drives me up the wall and causes my recorded output to become screwed up.

So, does anyone know how to switch this option off? Or can anyone suggest to me a suitable alternative that can record to MPEG1/2, do unattended schedule recording and also allow me to customise the encoding profile - e.g. how big I want the picture to be, what bitrate I want the audio/video at etc.

Thanks

afaik Showshifter can integrate with Digiguide for the scheduling, but I'm not sure how much control you get over the format or bitrate.

It lets you watch, record & pause live tv, as well, so I guess there won't be any file splitting, like Power VCR, which is obviously designed for burning to CD.

[ntl customer]

Originally Posted by homealone

afaik Showshifter can integrate with Digiguide for the scheduling, but I'm not sure how much control you get over the format or bitrate.

It lets you watch, record & pause live tv, as well, so I guess there won't be any file splitting, like Power VCR, which is obviously designed for burning to CD.

Thing is I do want to burn my files to CD but I'd like more control over the size. Obviously they seem to think everybody uses 650Mb CD's which simply isn't true - I don't wish to lower the bitrate to make it fit within the 600Mb 'limit' nor do I want part of my show that I'm recording to be cut off towards the end and split into another file!

I've just had a look into Showshifter, and it only seems to do MPEG4, DivX, Indeo and Motion JPEG, none of which I want to use simply because my computer probably can't hack the encoding and also I've found that those formats make it diffcult to encode the file to other formats (e.g. real).

Originally Posted by ntl customer

Thing is I do want to burn my files to CD but I'd like more control over the size. Obviously they seem to think everybody uses 650Mb CD's which simply isn't true - I don't wish to lower the bitrate to make it fit within the 600Mb 'limit' nor do I want part of my show that I'm recording to be cut off towards the end and split into another file!

I've just had a look into Showshifter, and it only seems to do MPEG4, DivX, Indeo and Motion JPEG, none of which I want to use simply because my computer probably can't hack the encoding and also I've found that those formats make it diffcult to encode the file to other formats (e.g. real).

fair do - I havn't used it myself, my ATI 'All in Wonder' card, will do most of what I want. Including an allegedly DVD compatible mpeg2 format - I havn't tried that, either, but I will