[mythtv-users] mpeg merging?
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Mon Dec 17 22:26:15 UTC 2007
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 05:04:32PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>
> My local PBS digital station is sometimes difficult to receive,
> however they typically broadcast the same show multiple times in a
> week. I currently check the recording of a show, and if it shows
> glitches, schedule it to be re-recorded. I was wondering if there
> might be something smarter that I could do.
>
> Since it seems unlikely that reception glitches will occur at exactly
> the same time in all recordings, I was wondering if there was any
> software which can take two or more mpeg files which should be
> identical, and "merge" them. Eg, if file A has damage at a particular
> point, it consults file B to repair the damage, if B is also damaged,
> it consults file C, etc. It seems that given enough samples, one
> should always be able to reconstruct a perfect copy of a digital
> broadcast.
look up avidemux. It allows limited scripting via SpiderMonkey. I
don't know how you'd script that though; chances are that the start and
stop times wouldn't be identical.
--Yan
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