[mythtv-users] DVD Authoring and MythTV Archive howto (writing one...)

[Mario L]

I dont mean to overly thread hijack, but:
Well i was having issues with avidemux2, but they werent A/V sync
issues.  I was actually originally trying to use either nuvexport or
the script that came with mythtvburn to attempt to cut commercials
followed by burn, and ran into issues.  Both of these used avidemux2,
and loaded my commercials cutlist out of mysql, but neither would
listen to it.  They both would work until the first commercial break
and then they would just continue adding on that part each time. So I
would only have the portion of the show up until the first commercial
break looped over and over again.  When you use avidemux2, do you
provide the cutlist right from the mythconverg sql table then and it
works fine for you?

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 16:06:27 -0500 (EST), Cory Papenfuss
<papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mario L wrote:
> 
> > Cory,
> >
> > I have been looking at a great way to get my recordings to looks a lot
> > better after transcode , but havent found anything acceptable.
> > Instead I have had to just deal with the size of the recordings thrown
> > at me from my PVR250 and deal.  Do you just transcode as a job right
> > from myth to 352x480, or do you have a process you follow after your
> > recordings are all done?
> 
>         If you search the list, you'll find previous posts on what I've
> done.  Basically, if there aren't any A/V sync glitches in the capture
> (e.g. capturing from tape), I use avidemux2 directly.  Basically:
> 
> - Capture at 640x480, 5Mbps or so
> - Edit commercials from within avidemux
> - Choose HQ3D denoise, 1/2 D1 resolution, 2-pass transcoding of video
> (roughly 3-4 hours/hour show on 2.4GHz machine)
> - Remux .m2v audio
> - qdvdauthor for fancy menus
> - dvdauthor to master
> - mkisofs to image
> - growisofs to burn
> 
>         If the sync is broken, there's a workaround.  Basically, it
> involves using 'mencoder' to encapsulate the MPEG2 stream into an .avi.
> Then use "rebuild b-frames" from within avidemux to resync A/V as an
> "AVI."  Then transcode as normal.  Avidemux can't deal with changing A/V
> sync within a capture.
> 
>   -Cory
> 
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> * Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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