[mythtv-users] Re: [Improving] The Current State of Myth -> DVD

[Dave Caplinger]

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 10:15 -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
> Yes... also quite difficult as I've been discovering.  Something 
> like GOPchop (or its successor gopdit?) is pretty close.  Parsing the 
> MPEG2 streams without demuxing is necessary.

I just wanted to say thanks for the pointer to gopdit - I've been having
good luck using it to cut out commercials manually, passing to replex,
and ultimately burning to DVD (without a fancy menu).  Before now I
always had a/v sync issues with the avidemux2 method of pulling apart
the audio and video, then putting it back together again.

So in a nutshell what I'm doing now is:

1) use nuvexport to export the sql/nuv version of the file
2) rename the .nuv to a .mpg
3) use gopdit to (manually) cut the commercials
4) pass to replex from within gopdit (pref. setting)
5) dvdauthor -o DVDNAME -f whatever.mpg     (once per episode)
6) dvdauthor -o DVDNAME -T
7) growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/hdc DVDNAME

Each episode winds up as it's own track on the DVD, no fancy menus.

So now I'm going to look into seeing if I can get automatic commercial
cutting working with gopdit so I don't have to do it manually (I imagine
it will be more reliable too since setting the cutpoints seems to be
very finicky -- I frequently had to start over because gopdit got
confused).  Then maybe I can work this into mythtvburn as a replacement
for the avidemux2 method it's using now (it can still use avidemux2 to
pull out the JPEGs though).

If anyone else wants to beat me to either of these steps, feel free; it
could take me a while...

-- 
Dave Caplinger