I tried to install MythBurn on my Ubuntu backend box but the install script keeps moaning I have errors and loops back on itself.<br><br>Anyone tried this/got it working?<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Dom<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 05/05/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Craig-Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:nick@craig-wood.com">nick@craig-wood.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> ... and I'm simply clarifying that I have seen literally *dozens*<br>> of, "Hey guys! I finally got it working this way!"... only to discover<br>> that they fundamentally rely on a *broken* underlying utility that cannot
<br>> handle synchronization errors in captured streams. The only reason it<br>> *appears* to work is that most captured streams do not have such errors.<br>> The "one true way that works sometimes" works more often than the normal
<br>> method of demuxing with avidemux2, mpgtx, etc as posted by most guides.<br>> It just has not been tested on much besides ivtv-captures AFAIK.<br>><br>> Again... the procedure described by the OP is valuable since it
<br>> uses tools that are *not* broken (ProjectX) in the context of variable<br>> A/V sync.<br><br>I'd second that. Having experimented a lot, ProjectX has been the<br>only 100% reliable tool I've used.<br><br>> Unfortunately, ProjectX has a trememdous amount of overhead
<br>> (java-based),<br><br>I don't find it too bad. It could be quicker, but once you've learned<br>the keyboard short cuts for the 4 different skip lengths, its quick<br>enough to find the cut points. Its reasonably fast at actually doing
<br>the demuxing too. I run it on an NFS mount so I'm not expecting much,<br>but it maxes out my 100 mbit network usually.<br><br>> and rumored to have artifacts on cut streams (although I have not<br>> verified this myself).
<br><br>I can't say I've seen any artifacts in the >100 disks I've made!<br><br>If you have a really spotty recording then the gaps in the audio<br>stream can get disconcerting, but that is hardly ProjectX's fault.<br>
(You can fill with the previous sample which works well for small<br>gaps, but for big gaps it is really wierd!)<br><br>--<br>Nick Craig-Wood <<a href="mailto:nick@craig-wood.com">nick@craig-wood.com</a>> -- <a href="http://www.craig-wood.com/nick">
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