On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:14:31AM -0400, Peter Osborne wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> Here's an example of what I am currently doing. I record 60 minutes of 
> television. I need to remove the commercials so I use mplayer to flip through 
> the file & write down the start & end times of all the commercials. Then, 
> with avirecompress, I have it create a sample config file, I then tweak the 

you may do this in avirecomress itself with frame precision

> file by hand as I cannot get the GUI interface to properly cut video & audio 
> so that they are in sync. 

yes I know - I've never said users should use avirecompress - it's for brave
person and they are supposed to report their problems - even myself I'm still
using VirtualDub 

> 
> After tweaking the file I use avirecompress with the config file(s) option to 
> copy the file into the pieces I want. At this point, I would like to join the 
> file back together but I find if I use "avicat *.avi", the resulting output 

bug

> 
> If in parts of my recording, there is significant frame loss at a certain 
> part, avirecompress will abort when it gets to that part rather than copying 
> it "as is". More bad things.


not sure what do you mean by - break - please try avirecompress from CVS
if you could replicate your 'break' - I'd like to see such sample file.


> Does anyone have some suggestions to help me make this process a little 
> better. Is there better programs for chopping & joining files?

transcode package right now ??

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