[mythtv-users] Re: Recordings are 5 seconds short

nate s nate.strickland at gmail.com
Wed Oct 27 18:31:46 UTC 2004


I too have noticed a gap in back to back recordings.  

Perhaps was chris refering to the simple uinx utility split?  I don't
know much about the way mpeg2 works, but unless there is some header
that's needed at the beginning it might work.  (perhaps errors at the
beginning of the file, but progs like mplayer are very good at dealing
with this.)  Joing them back together would be as simple as using cat.

You also might look at using nuvexport to transcode the files into
xvid or something.  It looks much better than straight mpeg4, AFAIK.

What sort of bandwidth are you trying to squeeze this in to, anyways?

-Nate

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:21:05 -0500, Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:47:55PM -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 20:38, Brian Meehan wrote:
> > > The problem
> > > arises when a segment is needed that spans 2 of the chunks. It seems that
> > > the chunk is exactly 5 seconds short, every time. Can't splice two chunks
> > > together when 5 seconds are missing. I've tried 2 minute chunks and 5
> > > minute chunks.
> >
> > This isn't related to start-early end-late settings in myth is it?
> > If you always told it to start 5 seconds early it might end the
> > current one 5 seconds early in order to get the next one
> > with 5 seconds of leader...  ?
> 
> No. I see the same thing.  There is always 5 seconds missing.
> 
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