[mythtv-users] Audio Sync problem -- need help

[John Drescher]

On 5/19/07, Craig Huff <huffcs at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> > To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>; huffcs at yahoo.com
> > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 1:00:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Audio Sync problem -- need help
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > The script is pxcut.sh. It needs to be edited and all instances of
> > jmd0 need to be replaced with the name of your master backend machine.
> > Also paths need to be updated to match your setup.
> >
> > Now what I do is I first go in mythtv. View the show and press E to
> > edit then I hit page-down (I believe) to turn on the commflag cuts.
> > Then I edit these for each show that I want to cut. Then I exit
> > mythfrontend and do a
> >
> > ls *<something showspecific>.mpg | xargs -n1 -i sh pxcut.sh {}
> >
> > Then this cuts all the shows that I had selected in the ls command
> > renaming the originals to filename.mpg.old.
> >
> > Then after that I run mytharchive for the shows I cut. I usually do
> > this days after I did the cut.. This proceedure has only failed on 1
> > dvd for me and I have made > 100 with mytharchive.
> >
> > John
>
> John,
>
> I have looked over the script and I have a couple of things I will need more
> guidance on.
>
> Firstly, it looks like I don't have projectx already installed. ;-(
> I didn't find any RPM packages that look like they provide it, either.
> (I checked fedora-core, -extras, -updates, atrpms, and freshrpms.)
>
> Is this the Project X I found on SourceForge?  If so, I have not had to
> build any applications from sources before (on Linux, anyway).  How is that
> done?  Is there a makefile?  Makefiles I have looked at for Linux apps can
> be quite complex.  How do I tell what object(s) to "make"?  I *should* have
> the tools needed to build from sources already installed, e.g. gcc and make.
>
Yes this is the one from sourceforge. I am not sure of the actual
build as my distribution does this for me but its probably the
following:

cd into the source Then execute the following commands.

./configure
make
make install


> Secondly, I have several *.mpg files in my recordings directory ;-)
> How do I determine which one is the one I want to record?  (In other words,
> how to I translate filenames like 1002_20070517195900.mpg to "Batman
> Returns" or "My Mother the Car"?)
>
This can be a little confusing but I usually determine by date/time
and channel. As I believe the channel for your example is 02 and the
start date is May 17,2007 at 19:59:00 or 7:59 PM.