[mythtv-users] Cleaning up DVB-T recordings

[Nick Morrott]

2010/1/19 Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>:
> I've been looking at some of my recordings, intending to trim the garbage
> from the ends and then possibly achive them away. Standard stuff.
>
> Unfortunately, because they are OTA reception, there are occasional errors
> during transmission. On most of these they are no more than the odd blemish.
>
> However, I can't run these through mythtranscode because it barfs on the
> errors. Is there anything available I can run these through that will 'clean
> up' these files so that I can then process them? Something that will
> discover the errors and substitute them with a suitable 'fake' block which
> will permit me to process further? It doesn't have to look any prettier than
> what was there before, just legal for the file format.
>
> I would be interested in Linux solutions only.


ProjectX (written in Java) has always fixed my UK DVB-T recordings
containing reception errors, and I've recommended it for years. I'm
currently using the CVS version from the beginning of this year,
available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/project-x/.

Cheers,
Nick

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