dvr-ms unworkable i VS11+

[Ösd]

When I insert a dvr-ms type file everything grinds almost to a halt and an incredible number of paging errors are generated. For some reason Videostudio seems to choose to have the entire file in memory which means that you can not really use dvr-ms files (maybe on a 64 bit system with lots of memory). Is this something that will be fixed or does anyone know of a conversion utility (working under Vista) that converts dvr-ms files to something that Videostudio can use?

[Ken Berry]

I don't have Media Center so have never had to use this format. But a quick Google search reveals that it causes a lot of people a lot of problems. One suggested list of programs which can convert it is listed here:
http://www.eirikso.com/2005/11/15/conve ... ia-center/

And yet another site has this to say:

DVR-MS files cannot be edited easily either. If you want to remove commercials or do other editing, it is necessary to convert your DVR-MS files to another format (like AVI) which can be easily edited. (Note that you cannot convert copy-protected files into another format.)

Conversion of DVR-MS files usually takes a long time, since they are high resolution and very large. Digital Media Converter makes it easy to convert your DVR-MS files to other video formats. You can batch-convert all your video and audio files between: VCD, DVD, AVI (DivX, MS MPEG4, uncompressed, etc), MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (PAL, NTSC), MOV, WMA, WMV, and WAV formats.

See http://www.deskshare.com/Resources/arti ... DVRMS.aspx for further details.