[mythtv-users] NUV to DVD, at last!

[Nick Craig-Wood]

>   	... and I'm simply clarifying that I have seen literally *dozens* 
>  of, "Hey guys!  I finally got it working this way!"... only to discover 
>  that they fundamentally rely on a *broken* underlying utility that cannot 
>  handle synchronization errors in captured streams.  The only reason it 
>  *appears* to work is that most captured streams do not have such errors. 
>  The "one true way that works sometimes" works more often than the normal 
>  method of demuxing with avidemux2, mpgtx, etc as posted by most guides. 
>  It just has not been tested on much besides ivtv-captures AFAIK.
> 
>   	Again... the procedure described by the OP is valuable since it 
>  uses tools that are *not* broken  (ProjectX) in the context of variable 
>  A/V sync.

I'd second that.  Having experimented a lot, ProjectX has been the
only 100% reliable tool I've used.

>  Unfortunately, ProjectX has a trememdous amount of overhead 
>  (java-based), 

I don't find it too bad.  It could be quicker, but once you've learned
the keyboard short cuts for the 4 different skip lengths, its quick
enough to find the cut points.  Its reasonably fast at actually doing
the demuxing too.  I run it on an NFS mount so I'm not expecting much,
but it maxes out my 100 mbit network usually.

> and rumored to have artifacts on cut streams (although I have not
> verified this myself).

I can't say I've seen any artifacts in the >100 disks I've made!

If you have a really spotty recording then the gaps in the audio
stream can get disconcerting, but that is hardly ProjectX's fault.
(You can fill with the previous sample which works well for small
gaps, but for big gaps it is really wierd!)

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick at craig-wood.com> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick