[mythtv-users] Commercial cutting & DVD burning

[Cory Papenfuss]

> Thanks Cory - duly noted at:
> http://www.mythtv.info/moin.cgi/AvidemuxHowTo
>
> Is there any preprocessing that can fix this - you previously mentioned 
> rebuilding the b-frames (avidemux offers this as a function) and using 
> mencoder...
>
 	Search the lists... it's come up at least twice.  The first was in 
December when I was archiving home video on tape to DVD.  Basically, the 
process is:

- "wrap" MPEG2 into an .avi file with 'mencoder -copy...'
- Load up .avi into avidemux
- Rebuild B-frames
- Save .avi file
- Load new .avi file and edit out stuff as before.
- Save resulting as A and V to remux... you could probably do an MPEG-A+V 
as instead.

 	It's a hack, and I certainly didn't test its robustness, but it 
appeared to work for me at the time.  I suspect it's still a bit broken, 
since I've tried to 'replex' the result recently to concatenate the 15-30 
PES-sized PU's originally generated from the PVR-250 into a single PU.  I 
noticed some DVD players thought the results were, "touchy."

YMMV

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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