Nico Sabbi wrote: > On Thursday 24 July 2008 15:57:06 Nico Sabbi wrote: > > >> be aware that demuxing the TS in its elementary streams implicitly >> drops all timestamps (that are recorded in the PES headers), thus >> recombining the audio and video streams will produce a >> desynchronized output, unless you are lucky. >> There simply aren't enough informations to keep synchrony without >> timestamps. With your method if a stream is corrupt >> you will likely see a desynchronization from the first breakage >> onward, while working on the TS the muxer has a chance to recover >> >> > > BTW, although mencoder is broken in countless respects, > generating an mpeg-ps is quite safe: > > $ mencoder -demuxer lavf -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -oac copy -ovc > copy -o output.mpg input.ts > > eventually dropping -demuxer lavf if it doesn't work (lavf's demuxer > isn't nearly as permissive as my native TS demuxer (the default one) > but it has an advantage: strictly correct timestamps on all frames) > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > > Hi Nico, Yes I wondered about corrupt streams, so I watched projectx in action carefully. I need to understand it a bit more, but it found many corrupt timestamps while demuxing, and repaired on the run. Time will tell, however I have some progress, and I can't fault the process yet! I intend to try all of everybody's suggestions. One question - with mencoder why format=dvd? Regards, Timf _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
