[mythtv-users] NUV to DVD, at last!

[Dom H]

I tried to install MythBurn on my Ubuntu backend box but the install script
keeps moaning I have errors and loops back on itself.

Anyone tried this/got it working?

Thanks

Dom

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