[mythtv-users] Burning DVD with MythArchive

[Paul Harrison]

John Drescher wrote:
>
>
> On 11/22/06, *John* <jharitos at yahoo.com <mailto:jharitos at yahoo.com>> 
> wrote:
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>     I'm having a horrible success rate in burning DVD
>     using MythArchive as I'm getting maybe 1 in every 10
>     recordings to burn. From looking at the log files it
>     looks like the audio/video gets out of sync causing
>     mplex to drop too many frames thus resulting in an
>     error. I have 'Allow MythTranscode" set which states
>     it'll fix sync issues but it must not be working.
>
>
>
> This never worked for me and in my opinion this actually it works 
> against you. The problem is that mythtranscode creates audio video 
> sync problems. A few months ago (just before the release of 0.20) I 
> filed a bug report that each commercial cut caused av sync problems. 
> The bug was verified and a patch was made to mythreplex that attempts 
> to fix the damage that mythtranscode has done. The problem is that 
> this fix does not always work so I use projectX to cut my recordings 
> and I have modified the main script to use projectx to do the demux 
> instead of mythtranscode. For me this never fails but it adds a few 
> other steps to the process.
>
> John
>
Hi John,

If you could modify mythburn.py to _optionally_ use ProjectX to do the 
commercial cutting and demuxing I would be happy to apply it. The 
important thing is that projectX should be an optional install and only 
used if the user wants it and has it installed. I would rather that 
mythtranscode was fixed but no one who has the knowledge to do it is 
interested enough to fix it. Using projectX would also enable other 
features like adding subtitles to be possible in the future.

Paul H.