[mythtv-users] mythburn - wow - this takes a LOOOONG time...

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Wed Sep 21 13:44:31 UTC 2005


Jesse Guardiani wrote:

[...]

> Hui Zhou, from the ivtv-devel list, was kind enough to write a C 
> program named "packfix.c" that will take
> a "bad" mpeg file and generate a fixed mpeg file from it. I won't post 
> the code here, as it's Copyright: Hui Zhou
> and I haven't asked permission, but anyone interested can pick it up 
> from the mailing list archive here:
>    http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24204
>
> packfix is a life saver! It took somewhere around 10-15 minutes to fix 
> a 4gb movie file. After that, mythburn
> didn't have any problem at all processing the fixed file.
>
> I plan to write a simple shell script tonight to process an entire 
> directory. I'll post it here in case anyone else
> runs into this problem.

As promised, anyone can get the shell script (packfix_dir.sh) from here 
if they want it:
    http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/24204

-- 
Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net



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