@MGSteve. Reading your posts I'm prompted to check that you haven't missed the 'Crop' option in webif. It's not perfect, but in terms of cost and effort expended against benefit derived, it still wins in my book. See the 'Editing via Web-If' wiki entry here.
The imperfection is that it loses a few seconds of sound after each cut point. I generally place my resume bookmarks at the beginning of the programme title screen that appears after each ad break. That way, although I do see the title screens, I lose nothing significant from the sound track.
As you say, it's easy to transfer files off the box. What you can do or cannot do with them (I'm referring to HD files here) after you've got them off is another matter. Most editors - and I've tried a lot of them - seem to crash at some point when trying to process Hummy files. The last time I looked at VideoReDo, it was only happy saving HD output as a ts file. Freemake's editor crashes if you move the cut point to the end of the file, and truncates output at random. Handbrake also crashes randomly. The most useful process I've found is the 'Quick stream fix' in VideoReDo. Once a Hummy ts file has been through this clean-up process, the resulting file seems to be acceptable to any of the above editors/transcoders. Unfortunately, to get Quick Stream Fix currently costs $95 and I've been unable to locate any free alternative that does the job.
Hi,
Not read the whole of this thread as just came upon it . . . so apologies if covered before.
I use ProjectX portable to clean up the Humax TS files so that they play properly on certain media players. Might help with your crashing editors ???
Pete