[mythtv-users] [maybe OT] timestamp overlay on nuv file

Another Sillyname anothersname at googlemail.com
Mon Jan 17 14:56:06 UTC 2011


On 17 January 2011 10:10, jeetu.golani at gmail.com <jeetu.golani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to figure this out and google it but haven't come up with a
> truly satisfactory solution yet. I would sincerely appreciate if someone
> could share insight on how I could go about this.
>
> What I would like doing is to take the output nuv file of Mythtv and overlay
> it with the timestamp it was recorded at.
>
> Closest I've come across using gstreamer and the timeoverlay element (tried
> this on mpg files and not nuv though as I understand it gstreamer supports
> nuv). This falls short since I haven't figured out a way to provide the time
> to the timeoverlay element wherein it can then display that.
>
> There has been a patch for an earlier release of mplayer/mencoder
> (http://onebithq.com/root/mplayer/cctv) that supposedly includes this
> functionality however I haven't been able to bring it to compile (even if I
> check out the earlier branch).
>
> Any clues would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks
>
> Bye for now
>
>
>
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Any timestamp stored separately from the actual file is subject to
compromise and introduces management issues.

The best way to ensure timestamping accuracy is add it to the file
during the transcode.

Regards


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