[mythtv-users] MythArchive has been added to svn - Please test
Jo Shields
directhex at apebox.org
Fri May 5 03:48:53 EDT 2006
Niels Dybdahl wrote:
> On 5/4/06, *Paul Harrison* <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
> <mailto:mythtv at dsl.pipex.com>> wrote:
>
> I've just added to svn the first release of MythArchive which is a new
> plugin for myth that allow you create DVD's from your myth recordings.
> Its still a work in progress but is at a stage where I would like
> people
> to test it so I can get some feed back on what works and what doesn't.
> At the moment its in svn as a separate module but eventually when its
> had more testing and is more complete it will probably be moved in
> with
> the other plugins. Its based on the old MythBurn scripts but has been
> rewritten to reduce the number of dependencies and to hopefully
> make it
> easier to install.
>
> I've created a wiki page giving more details of what MythArchive
> can do
> and how to install it.
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythArchive
>
>
> Looks very promising. I especially like that it can handle MPEG4s as
> well. I would like to try it this weekend.
> Some questions:
> - Can it reduce the size of recordings, if they are too large ? Does
> it use mythtranscode or tcrequant for that ?
> - Is the new archive format playable ? (Currently I archive with the
> nuv+sql option from nuvexport which is playable on both Linux and
> Windows. But that method breaks when the database structure change...)
> - I guess the conversion takes place in the background, like with
> mythburn. Can you confirm that ?
>
> Best regards
> Niels Dybdahl
I notice a heavy reliance on ffmpeg - doesn't this suffer from the same
A/V desync issues as every other non-ProjectX DVD creation method when
using a cutlist?
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