Windows Vista Dvr-ms To Mpeg

Ok I did the search and didn't find any posts on this subject. Not sure this is the right forum for this post so please feel free to move it if need be.

I have Vista Home Premium WMC no problems with setup, everything works as should which I guess I should be grateful after reading all these posts.

My problem is that I recorded a movie. I have my Dish Network receiver connected to my tv tuner card, scheduled and recorded just fine.

I have the movie in "My Recorded TV" folder and am able to play it using MC, WMP and Nero so I KNOW there is a movie there. But when I try to rip it to mpeg it will rip the 1st 15 seconds of the movie (i.e. the movie producer's flash screen then the start of the movie) then it stops, when viewing it while recording it shows it is 2 hours and 7.6gb, but as it is decoding to mpeg after the 1st 15seconds the movie is just a black screen and no sound, like there is not a movie there but there is, it will record the whole 2 hours in nero with just the 1st 15 seconds and then blank.

I have tried digtial media converter, dvdedit (greenbutton.com), Nero Vision, Super, AutoDVDconvert, Media Center using Sonic to decode, Cyberlink Power DVD 7, and all with the same results. with the exception of Nero all the others convert the 15 seconds to an mpeg output file and then says finished, Nero will output the whole file but with blank/black screen/sound.

I have search 100s of forums and posted but no reponses to my problem. Like I said I know the movie is there because I can watch it I just can't extract it to mpeg.

Any help is appreciated.

 

I thought that too, but when looking at the properties of the movie it says it is not protected.

None of the programs I used even the converter within MCE has any error about it being DRM protected.

Even if it was it would seem that the DRM would kick in as soon as you tried to record it, instead of 15 second into the movie.

 

I did, and it converted just fine. So I am re-recording that movie and see if it will work, possibly something went wrong with the original.

As a matter of fact Windows Movie Maker will convert them, which I tried but it didn't work so I assumed it did not support dvr files, but will try to convert again, will post back with results. As I said, may have just been bad original.

We will see.

 

Well no luck on that seems movie uses Audio Codec: AC3Filter and Video codec: Decrypt/Tag0003. Also says Windows Media Player cannot play this protected file because I do not have the media rights, however when you check the media rights is says "not protected ".

Can I add these codecs to WMM?

 

FWIW, Windows Movie Maker does convert DVR-MS files, though it is a slowish and CPU intensive process. I have done it successfully.

Pretty much every codec you could ever want is here, for free

K-Lite Codec Pack