[mythtv-users] Problems with MythTV - hd-pvr recording and viewing/editing with other programs

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Norm <mlists at dressler.ca> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a DV cam that was not finalizing the DVD in it so the only solution I
>> had was to connect it to my HD-PVR, and 'watch' it like a channel on myth
>> tv.  I recorded the video that way.
>>
>> The problem is, now that I have it in this format, I can't seem to find
>> anything to edit the file.  Avidemux crashes as do Kino.  Gopchop just says
>> the file has too many errors and refuses to open it.
>>
>> When I watch it in myth as a recorded program it works great.  But when I
>> copy it to videos and try and watch it that way I get all kinds of grief -
>> likely internal viewer versus mplayer that I have set up as my default video
>> viewer?
>> Is there a way I can quickly convert this video to something else so I can
>> edit it, etc?
>>
>> Thanks in advance --
>
> It may help to do a stream copy of the file - that tends to get rid of
> some errors. Something like:
>
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy infile.mpg -o outfile.mpg
>

sorry, replying to myself, but this program is a relatively new linux
video editor and may help. It is able to do avchd so may cope with an
hd-pvr recording:

http://www.openshotvideo.com/