Hi,
I've tried the SolveigMM VideoSplitter and I must say, for removing ads from WMVs this is by far the best program I've ever used. The only real downpoint is the lack of frame-accuracy. I found two posts by Dmirty, one from April and one from August this year, saying that it will be available soon, but when will it be?
At the moment, I use VideoSplitter to find the exact start&end positions and then cut the WMV using ASFbin, but that's of course not the best solution. (Before that, I imported the WMV through AviSynth into VirtualDub to find the positions).
I know that it cannot work flawlessly, but most of the time, if you know what you're doing, it produces acceptable results, because you cut either at an position where there is a scene change anyway (so most of the picture changes and the rest will bee rerstored soon after that point), or you join two exactly equal frames (if there is an overlap of the part before and after the ads, and no clear scene change happens during that overlap), and then the errors are even more subtle.
If frame accuracy would work, I'd be buying VideoSplitter immediately
Stefan
P.S.: Oh, and some other (convenience) issue: When one of the markers is selected, how do I start playback from that position? If there is nothing that I didn't find out yet, here some suggestions:
- A keyboard shortcut to set the slider to the position of the currently selected marker (and possibly, selecting it right afterwards)
- An option to "snap" the slider to marker positions when dragging it by mouse (like "snap to grid" in some painting tools)
- Playback is always started from the currently selected item (whether marker or slider) [This would introduce some difficulties with the slider system, though.]
- Upon play, the slider is set to the position of the currently selected marker [Quite intuitive, I think]
