[mythtv-users] Little gems on MythTV wiki

Brent Bolin brent.bolin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 14:12:32 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Christopher Meredith
<chmeredith at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Brent Bolin <brent.bolin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ran across this info -
>>
>> Did you know you can merge two MPG files together?
>> cat File1 File2 > Merged File-name.
>>
>> Doesn't appear to work.  I have a couple of DVD's that are on two
>> disks.  Currently have them as video.name.disk1.mpg and
>> video.name.disk2
>>
>> So I tested to see what would happen.
>>
>> Here is a snippet of what I see in  mythfrontend.log
>>
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.282 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]AVC: nal size 1315803467
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.282 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]no frame!
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.282 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]AVC: nal size -1686999763
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.283 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]no frame!
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.283 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]AVC: nal size -645962405
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.283 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]no frame!
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.283 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]AVC: nal size 1296261589
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.283 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]no frame!
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.284 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]AVC: nal size -1383481424
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.284 [h264 @ 0x40646e0]no frame!
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.333 AFD: Opened codec 0xaed1df70, id(H264) type(Video)
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.334 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.348 AFD: Opened codec 0xac9e8a90, id(AAC) type(Audio)
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.348 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.350 AFD: Opened codec 0xac9e9010, id(AC3) type(Audio)
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.350 AFD Error: Could not find decoder for codec
>> (Unknown Codec ID), ignoring.
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.398 AFD: Opened codec 0xacdaad20, id(H264) type(Video)
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.398 AFD: codec AAC has 2 channels
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.399 AFD: Opened codec 0xacdab2a0, id(AAC) type(Audio)
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.399 AFD: codec AC3 has 2 channels
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.400 AFD: Opened codec 0xacdab820, id(AC3) type(Audio)
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.400 AFD Error: Could not find decoder for codec
>> (Unknown Codec ID), ignoring.
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.423 Opening audio device 'spdif'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.423 Opening ALSA audio device 'iec958:{ AES0 0x02 }'.
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.601 Opening audio device 'spdif'. ch 2(2) sr 48000
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.601 Opening ALSA audio device 'iec958:{ AES0 0x02 }'.
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.667 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video Texture'
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:06.737 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 1280 H: 720
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:07.910 TV: StartPlayer(0, Watching Video, main) -- end ok
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:07.911 New DB connection, total: 3
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:07.912 New DB connection, total: 4
>> YadifDeint: In-Pixformat = 1 Out-Pixformat=1
>> YadifDeint: size changed from 0 x 0 -> 720 x 432
>> YadifDeint: Using existing thread.
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:07.920 OpenGLVideoSync()
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:07.982 Video timing method: SGI OpenGL
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:09.848 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times.
>> 2010-02-22 07:10:11.731 NVP(0): Prebuffer wait timed out 20 times.
>>
>> The two video files were created using Handbrake with High Profile setting.
>>
>> filetype shows -
>>
>>  file ap*
>> apocalypse.now.disk1.mpg: setgid ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2
>> apocalypse.now.disk2.mpg: setgid ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2
>>
>> So I guess this doesn't work.
>
> Yeah, you can't do that with H264, only MPEG2. To concatenate those
> recordings you have to do:
> mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -forceidx apocalypse.now.disk1.mpg
> apocalypse.now.disk2.mpg -o apocalypse.now.mpg
>
> Also, you should use either the mp4 or mkv containers for H264
> recordings made with Handbrake. In that case, you could also use
> either mkvmerge or MP4Box to easily concatenate files.
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Does "Also, you should use either the mp4 or mkv containers for H264"
make a quality difference?


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