[mythtv-users] mpeg merging?

[Yan Seiner]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:04:32PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> My local PBS digital station is sometimes difficult to receive,
> however they typically broadcast the same show multiple times in a
> week.  I currently check the recording of a show, and if it shows
> glitches, schedule it to be re-recorded.  I was wondering if there
> might be something smarter that I could do.
> 
> Since it seems unlikely that reception glitches will occur at exactly
> the same time in all recordings,  I was wondering if there was any
> software which can take two or more mpeg files which should be
> identical, and "merge" them.  Eg, if file A has damage at a particular
> point, it consults file B to repair the damage, if B is also damaged,
> it consults file C, etc.  It seems that given enough samples, one
> should always be able to reconstruct a perfect copy of a digital
> broadcast.

look up avidemux.  It allows limited scripting via SpiderMonkey.  I 
don't know how you'd script that though; chances are that the start and 
stop times wouldn't be identical.

--Yan