[mythtv-users] Mytharchive - Audio/video Drift when archiving a recording to DVD, and edits not being honoured

[John Pilkington]

On 15/04/11 12:48, Angus Kerr wrote:
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>> If you want to apply edits within MythArchive you have to activate this
>> after you have selected the recordings: use the 'm' or menu key to bring
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>> up a list of options.  In Myth 0.24 the cuts are still inverted.
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>> Personally I prefer to do things one step at a time.  That way you can
>> hope to make some progress instead of always starting from the beginning
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>> after the likely misfires.
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>> I don't know how many people are starting from .nuv these days. I
>> haven't seen sync problems during the last few years when starting from
>> mpeg2 recordings or pre-converted .nuv.
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>> And a 300 minute single-layer dvd won't give good picture quality; but I
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>> suppose you can judge that from what you have.
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>> HTH
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>> John P
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> Thanks John.
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> Will check out the menu options - must have overlooked this issue.
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My note about the inverted cutlist probably applies only if Project-X is 
being used.

> As for your comments about nuv - I can't see a way on how *not* to have
> the recording in .nuv?

Not if that's what your hardware gives; I work from dvb-t and suspect 
that most people now use digital sources.  ISTR that I used mencoder to 
preconvert from nuv to a dvd-ish format, but still with the original 
filename, on the few occasions that I've done it.
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> I did get sync errors some years back because of dropped video frames, but
> that was through the AV inputs, where the streams go separately..
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> I did not expect sync errors with a video file where the audio and video
> are already in sync...
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> Quality wise, it is quite surprising how good the quality is considering
> it's being squashed so much. But then, from the RF output of my PVR, the
> quality was pretty bad to begin with....
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> The only reason for this exercise was to be able to get the 6 hours onto a
> single disk so a friend could look at it.
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> A few speed bumps later, it's still a bit of a train wreck.
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> Am I correct in assuming that ffmpeg is the smoking gun?

Maybe someone else can answer that.

John P