[mythtv-users] OT? Timestretch playback of radio recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/21/2007 02:08 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> I got no hits from this post, but found a reference by Mike Dean to
> timestretch in (some versions of) xine:
>> http://threebit.net/mail-archive/mythtv-users/msg48923.html
>>     
> I mailed him off list and got these instructions.  They work for me -
> although the stretch factor increments offered by the UI seem 
> unnecessarily large.

Right.  IIRC, clicking either the "-" on the spinbox will roll the 
timestretch factor outside of the legal range of values.  You basically 
have to type in your own desired value, which--with xitk--is annoying, 
because double-/triple-click select doesn't work, nor does 
Shift-Home/Shift-End, nor even mouse selection, so removing the existing 
value (the default is 0.8, but it's represented as 8.000000e-01) 
requires a lot of backspaces.  The other approach is to edit the value, 
keeping it in exponential notation (i.e. change 8.000000e-01 to 
7.500000e-01, or whatever) with Home followed by a couple Delete's and 
then Enter (or the value won't "take") and then either 4 Tabs and an 
Enter or clicking the OK button.

And, all that's /after/ you get to the Audio postprocessing chain 
reaction dialog--which, itself, is annoyingly-hard to get to.

It's not annoying enough for me that I've actually looked at the code to 
see if it could be improved, but it's definitely not as easy as hitting 
"a" followed by the up/down and left/right keys (as it is in Myth).

Mike