[mythtv-users] Re: MPEG2->MPEG2 cut spinning

[Steve Christall]

Gavin Hurlbut wrote:

>Steven Christall <mythtv at mctubster.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>As far as I can tell the Xvfb allows you to run a virtual frame buffer
>>so that you can run the program without an xwindows session.
>>    
>>
>Correct.  And without polluting your X session if you have one.
>  
>
OK ... so I just ran avidemux2 by itself in Xwindows.  It ran fine and I 
manually opened a NUV file.  It took say five minutes to index it, and 
then I was able to save the video file out.   (post writing the below I 
have now realised the file that worked here was from my PVR350)

I then hacked your script so that it wouldn't find my Xvfb install and 
ran mpeg2cut in a shell in X.  It correctly ran up avidemux2 to index 
the file but exited just a couple of seconds later.  Avidemux2 then 
opened a second time and started doing the usual CPU spinning without 
going anywhere. (no index file?)

I downgraded my avidemux2 from 2.0.34 to 2.0.28 but still behaves the same.

I then tried the appropriate line from your script,
avidemux2 --index-mpeg ./2004_20050124230500_20050124235000.nuv 
2004_20050124230500_20050124235000.idx C0 --audio-codec MP2 --quit 
 >error.txt

I got this ..........

---------snip----------
Auto adding:
 file 1: /myth/tv/2004_20050124230500_20050124235000.nuv, size: 1440265985
 file: /myth/tv/2004_20050124230500_20050124235001.nuv not found.
 found 1 files
Done

 unrecognized stream
---------snip----------

I am wondering if it is to do with DVB files, which is the file I am 
trying to cut the ads out of  ....... is there a trick with this kind of 
NUV file vs one from my PVR350?  Do I have to do something to it first?

Thanks
Steve