[vdr] Re: Question about mplex

["Rene Bartsch" <vdr@bartschnet.de>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Philippi" <lists@torangan.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2002 7:35 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Question about mplex


> On Sunday 15 September 2002 19:27, you wrote:
> > MPlayer is one of the few player/encoders which directly can handle the
> > PES of VDR ...
>
> Playing them using Xine was no problem and it worked under Win32 too since
> there are drivers installed. What I mostly need is a tool that allows me
to
> cut some frames out and repack it into a DivX to save storage.
> Right now I'm using an awkward solution in Win32 - recode the file with
Xmpeg
> into a DivX .avi with high bitrate, extract the sound to a wav. Recombine
> video/sound with VirtualDub (eventually adding a delay to sync them) and
> then I reencode this file with VirtualDub again to the desired framerate
> thereby cutting out the commercials and applying some filters
(deinterlace,
> resize).
> Not only does this take quite a lot of time - there are also a few files
> which Xmpeg can't encode since there seems to be some errors in the
> beginning. Playing back works well but transcoding doesn't work (picture
> freezes, sounds continues correct).
>
> Bye David
>

As weather is changing, there are errors in the received data-stream.
Cutting solves a lot of errors, but as you don't have a full-featured card
you can't do it - sorry.
The other point is PES having a slight A/V-desync at the beginning of a
data-stream,
which causes many encoders to skip. The only solution is to cut off the fist
seconds, again.
So the only solution is to recode with MPlayer and cut that stream ...

Rene