This program was originally written by Ben Cooley to convert high definition television transport stream files into mpeg2 files. I started adding a few things here and there to it and next thing I knew it became a transport stream editing program for editing out unwanted sections of a recorded hi-def show. Normally a 1 hour show would take up 8.5 Gb of hard disk space, where a good 15 mins of that are commercials, so for every hour of a show, you're losing 2 Gb of hard disk space to junk! Using the editing part of this program, you can edit out those commercials, and cut a 1 hour show down to 43 minutes, which is just over 6 Gb.

This software totally unsupported. Sometimes the file copy will freeze on some machines when skipping unwanted sections, but hitting cancel and trying again may work. If not, feel free to download the source code and fix it yourself ;)

The latest 1.10b version has what appears to be fixed mpeg2 exporting! Thanks go to "dtv_user" for spotting a silly typo bug.

Downloads

hdtvtompeg2_v110b.zip (77kb)
The program itself, version 1.10

hdtvtompeg2src_v110b.zip (357kb)
Source code, intended for Visual C++ 6.0 sp5 w/ processor pack