[vdr] Re: Question about mplex

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Philippi" <lists@torangan.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: Question about mplex


> On Friday 13 September 2002 21:46, you wrote:
> > This happens because there are small errors in the recorded stream. You
> > can't avoid errors during receiption, so the solution is to correct them
> > by observing the presentation time stamp in the transport stream during
> > splitting into elementary streams. The tool PVAStrumento from Wilijo
> > Heinen will do this Job. It's a Windoze tool, but there is a command
line
> > version that can be executed on Linux machines by using wine. (I havn't
> > tried wine, but PVAStrumento on Windoze is a nice thing).
>
> I found this problem too when I tried the same with another file. In this
> special case the error is even in the first few ms so I could just cut the
> first few frames if I understood how to use the splitting tool.
> Using a record stream without errors works better if not correct - the
audio
> is still out of sync but instead of an increasing error it seems more like
a
> constant offset.
> The perfect solution for me would be to find a way to convert the recorder
> MPEG 2 stream into DivX and the audio into a MP3 or suchlike.

Ever heard about MPlayer?

Rene

 Then it should
> be possible to cut out e.g. the commercials using VirtualDub in Windows
> which unfortunately won't decode MPEG 2. If someone tells me about a
usable
> tool for Linux I won't have to reboot.
>
> Bye David
>
>
>