[mythtv-users] Varying data formats during digital reception

[John Pilkington]

On 05/11/12 17:46, Jose Paulo Moitinho de Almeida wrote:

>> ...problem is, he has to get the program started before he can use the
>> editor to set the cutpoints...
>>
>> possible if you have sufficient padding before the actual content starts, I
>> suppose. But will the editor fail be
>> cause the format changed, even so?
>
> I am not at home but, effectively, using the editor is not possible. Editing
> those files past that point also hangs the frontend.
>
> But I can work with "tail/head -c" by iteration/bisection of the file, until I
> just capture the zone of the relevant point.
>
> I'll post that tonight.
>
> Regards
>
> ZP
>
Or:  mv infile.mpg infile.mpg0

dd bs=1M skip=35  count=40 if=infile.mpg0 of=infile.mpg

adjust the skip number and see if it plays in Myth, then omit the count.

HTH

John P