[mythtv-users] OTish ProjectX Howto? (en)

[Steven Adeff]

On 7/31/06, Nick Rout <nick at rout.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:35:43 +1000
> "Phill Edwards" <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I have been playing with ProjectX. However i am having a few problems
> > > getting to grips with it. I am aware of the Guide at doom9.org
> > >
> > > (http://www.doom9.org/DigiTV/projectx-fullguide.htm)
> > >
> > > but unfortunately the gui there is quite different to the one on my
> > > machine, which looks more like this:
> > >
> > > http://www.videohelp.com/toolsimages/projectx_592.jpg
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of an english site with any sort of howto or tutorial
> > > for someone who doesn't really understand this beast.
> >
> > What do you need to know? I can explain how to cut the ads out of your
> > MPEG2 recordings if you're not sure about that, but that's about as
> > far as my knowledge goes.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Phill
>
> I think i kinda got the basics of that down, the main thing I couldn't figure out is where to
> change the file name of the resulting files.

you can't, at least not in the latest version I'm running, haven't
checked for an update in a few months.


> I just feel that I am possibly missing a lot of functionality, given all the options that I don't
> understand or use.

Honestly, there's really not a whole lot, its basically a simple
editor with sync correction and minor video error correction. It can
also do PID filtering (though is exponentially more difficult to
accomplish this than it should be). There is a forum for the software,
its German based, but they do speak English when required.

-- 
Steve
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