Hi, On Monday 19 June 2006 20:28, Sven Over wrote: > > I'm sorry for not answering your mail. I'm quite busy these days both > at work and in my private life.
I know what you mean :)
> > Does anyone know whether dvbcut development has just temporarily
> > stagnated, or is it completely dead?
>
> So, as you probably saw on the web page, the last release was from
> the end of last year. Since then I have made only slight changes to
> the sources, some of them were published on this mailing list (not
> only by myself). There are two reasons why the development of dvbcut
> is not so rapid at the moment: first, I'm lacking time, and after I
> spent some weekends on dvbcut alone last year, I don't feel too much
> like investing more time. Which leads to the second reason: dvbcut
> works so perfect for the thing I'm doing with it, that I really don't
> feel the urge to work on it.
This is sad to hear.
dvbcut's potential is unbeaten by any of the projects you mention (or by
gopdit and gopchop someone else told me about). dvbcut's specials are
* exact cutting within GOPs (and re-encoding)
* the great exponential slider. Have not seen anything comparably simple
yet
* it's theoretically a one-tool-does-it-all project
As I wrote in my private mail last week, I see dvbcut as a all-in-one
solution for DVB-recording to DVD processes. For this task (with a few
minor (?) changes) it would be unbeatable...
Just in case you're interested:
* A Pro7 recording from two days ago ("Lethal Weapon 3") makes dvbcut
segfault. The stream is not recorded too well, though, with a lot of
artifacts.
* A good recording of a worldcup game ("Das Erste"/ARD) made dvbcut
segfault
* A VOX recording a few days ago can not be exported after cutting due
to muxing problems. I remuxed the file before feeding it to dvbcut - no
change.
* A (seems-to-be-good quality) ORF-1 recording on the last weekend is
loaded halfways, the second part of the film is not visible in dvbcut.
Yes, I applied the two patches by you and Michael Riepe that were
published on this list.
> On the other hand, dvbcut is open source.
Sure it is. I'm thinking about implementing a few ideas when I have a
little more time; my C++ skills are very limited, though, and my
knowledge about mpeg is more or less non-existant.
You have put so much energy into the project in the past, that you
probably know where to fix what a lot better than anyone else :)
> ProjectX is a name that keeps being dropped. But I myself never used
> it, and to be very very honest, I don't even know what one can
> exactly do with it.
ProjectX does
* Demuxing
* Creation of TS containers
* some other (de)muxing functions
* GOP-precise cutting
ProjectX does NOT (compared to dvbcut)
* frame-precise cutting
* have an exponential slider
* create PS files, or even "pre-DVD-mpgs" (you can use "mplex" for this
task, though)
* as a Java program provide the speed of dvbcut's native code.
So... no, ProjectX does currently not make me happy.
Thx anyway for your support and answer,
Bastian
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