[mythtv-users] MPEG2->MPEG2 commercial cutting in 0.14

[Bruce C. Dillahunty]

I haven't tried again since .14 came out, but this is what I got with 
CVS a bit ago...

Bruce


Jeff Monks wrote:
> I'm trying out the new MPEG2 commercial cutting in 0.14, and it's working 
> very well, except for one thing:  the resulting files don't play well in 
> mythfrontend.  
> 
> I can define the cutlist, and then trancode it, which only takes a few 
> minutes, resulting in a smaller file with no commercials.  Hooray!  This 
> file will play fine in mplayer, but when I try to play it back in 
> mythfrontend, it's jerky in an odd, rhythmic way.  The video will slow 
> down for about two seconds, then speed up so that the video catches up to 
> the audio, then slow down again, speed up, see-sawing back and forth 
> between fast and slow on about a two-second cycle.
> 
> This behavior doesn't start in the stream until after the first cutpoint, 
> so if I cut some stuff from the beginning of a show, it will start pretty 
> much immediately, but if I don't cut anything from the beginning, it will 
> play fine until it reaches the first cut.
> 
> I'm using Myth 0.14 and ivtv 0.1.9 (though it does the same thing with 
> older recordings made with various versions of ivtv).  The behavior is the 
> same whether I run mythtranscode from the command line, or if I press 'x' 
> during playback.
> 
> Anyone else tried this new feature and gotten the same (or different) 
> results?
> 
> 
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