[mythtv-users] General satisfaction

[Andrew Close]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/27/2008 11:20 AM, Andrew Close wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>  > <snip/>
>  >
>  >>  I find I can't watch movies at 1.75x, on the other hand.  Even 1.5x is
>  >>  /very/ challenging for most movies.
>  > movies that you've recorded from tv i assume..?
>
>  Right.
>
>
>  >   or can you watch
>  > content from MythVideo (dvd/dvd rips/downloads) with timestretch?
>  >
>
>  Pretty sure you can.  Using the Internal player it /should/ work.
>
>  I know (a properly compiled) xine will do it, too.  You need to have
>  audio postprocessing (which many distros don't seem to build--perhaps
>  it's a separate package, though I don't know why that would be since
>  video postprocessing isn't).  I actually copy my TV to my laptop to
>  watch while I sit around airports and hotels.  And, it's much easier to
>  just use xine on the laptop rather than Myth (i.e. I don't have to do
>  anything "fancy" to copy all the data for just the recordings I'm
>  copying--just copy a file from a symlink created by mythrename.pl), so I
>  do timestretch in xine all the time.
>
>  The funny thing is that Myth uses <some value> times as fast as
>  real-time playback for its units, so to play faster, you'd use something
>  like 1.25x or 1.5x or whatever.
>
>  However, xine uses a timestretch factor specifying how much time is
>  stretched, so to play faster, you use something like 0.8 or 0.75 or
>  0.667.  In other words, xine's units are the inverse of Myth's (i.e.
>  xine_val = 1 / myth_val).

sweet, i'll have to give that a try since i do use the internal
player.  Thanks Mike :)

-- 
Andrew Close