[mythtv-users] Best way to listen to long spoken-word audio files

[Paul Harrison]

Robin Gilks wrote:
>> You could use something like lives.sourceforge.net to create a video. Just
>> use Gimp to create a blank frame then read that into lives and then import
>> your audio and then save it as a .avi or .mpeg and then you could use
>> mythvideo. Not ideal but then again not a very difficult work around.
>>     
>
> Does anyone feel up to writing a script that will extract the id3 data
> from an mp3, create a jpeg from it (perhaps overlaid over a pretty
> picture) and then use lives in command mode to stitch the two together to
> create an avi file for MythVideo?
>
> Sounds like a winner to me (but I've never played with lives before) - the
> image creation stuff could probably be lifted from MythArchive.
>
> Cheers
>
>   

There's also code in MythArchive that you could use as an example that
creates an mpeg file from one or more still images and a sound track
:-)  Take a look at:-
http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/trunk/mythplugins/mytharchive/mythburn/scripts/mythburn.py#L469

Paul H.