[mythtv-users] Search Beta-Tester for a script (ref. Ticket #790)

[Peter Kornhuld]

IMPORTANT BUGFIX

If you already had an *.mkv-File it was possible that the skript destoied it 
under some circumstances.  

http://321792695951.terra-hosting.de/files/Myth-database2mkv-0.9.1.rar
Will be up in some minutes.

Am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 23:37 schrieb Peter Kornhuld:
> Hello.
>
> I read Ticket #790 and was inspired to write something.
> http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/790
>
> The Idea of the ticket.
> It would be nice if one could merge all the IMDB-informations from the
> MythVideo-database into the videofiles. So you can take all the
> informations with the file to another mythbox.
>
> I found a way... the Matroska-Container. You do NOT need to recode your
> stuff, you just merge the infos and the cover into the file like Id3-Tags.
> (The output is a .mkv-File with your old
> divx/xvid/mp3/ac3/Subtitles....whatever in it). You can Play them with xine
> and mplayer.
> The Merging-speed depends on the speed of your harddrive.
>
> You need the Matroska-stuff:
> www.matroska.org
>
> Ok... Long Story short: I wrote two skripts, which do the job and I need
> some Beta-testers. Hints and patches are welcome.
> One script reads the informations from the database and write it to the
> file and the other does the same in the other direction (much faster than
> the first one).
>
> You find the scripts here:
> http://321792695951.terra-hosting.de/files/Myth-database2mkv-0.9.rar
>
> Greets
> Peter and Christoph
>
> TODO: (Patches and hints welcome)
> - Test and improve UTF-8 support (I couldnt test it myself and you have to
> configure the skript)
> - Only the special-chars äöü and ß are suported... improve that
> - Improve the way to configure the scripts
> - ...
> - Write more TODO's
> - Ask the ffmpeg-guys for a better Matroska-support. :)
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