[mythtv-users] wrong bitrate detected

[Marco Nelissen]

>On 3/10/06, Marco Nelissen <marcone at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'd say the application is doing something wrong, but even if the
>> broadcaster
>> is at fault, there isn't much you can do about that, so the application
>> will
>> have to deal with whatever off-spec streams it encounters in the wild.
>>
>
>BTW, what's the easiest way to chop off a chunk from the begining of a file?

It depends on the format of the file. If it's an mpeg system stream and the
app you use to play is good about scanning for frameheaders even if it
doesn't start with one, then I'd just use 'dd' with a skip-argument.