On Monday June 19th 2006, at 7:54pm, Bastian Friedrich wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a (my first) DVB card last week; while evaluating different > solutions, I found dvbcut - a great project in terms of ideas and > intentions, but unfortunately "alpha". I have had segfaults and a > number of multiplexing problems - in the end, I was unsuccessful > cutting films in more than 50% of the cases; in the other (er, less > than) 50%, I had to do some pre- and post-conversions. > > I wrote a private mail to Sven; he did not (yet?) answer.
Hello Bastian, hello mailing list. I'm sorry for not answering your mail. I'm quite busy these days both at work and in my private life. Particularly now I'm lacking time, since I will depart to Sicily tomorrow morning (yippie!) to attend a school on cosmic rays and astroparticle physics there... > 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. Sorry to say... I know that there are bugs and problems in it. But I myself only use it for cutting music video clips from one tv stations (MTV2 Europe, by the way). And dvbcut works fine with the streams of this station... never had a problem. I apologize for not providing you more updates and help. On the other hand, dvbcut is open source. Anyone can contribute. If there is someone who like to address the known problems (crashes, requested features...) I'm willing to support him or her. In the case that there are people who like to contribute to the development, or even continue it for a while, I would like to give some ideas how to improve dvbcut. I would implement them myself if I found the time. Maybe this will happen in the future. Of course you all know the GPL -- you can make forks of dvbcut and implement whatever you like however you like. But to keep things simple and to address existing dvbcut users it would be nice to keep everything in one place. Credits will be given to the right people of course. > Does anyone know of any alternatives? Not really ;) Before I wrote dvbcut I used avidemux, which is a nice tool, but it is (was?) not able to do frame precise cutting of MPEG2 material, and I also encountered some a/v sync problems. (No offense to the avidemux people. Avidemux is great and superior to dvbcut in many aspects. Instead of the thousands of nice features, I just told you about the reasons for me to start something new.) 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. > Thx & Regards, > Bastian Sorry to tell you that dvbcut development is kind-of-dead for the moment. I will probably continue on it some day, but I cannot say if that would be next week, next year, or only after I finished counting to infinity... Bye bye... PS: if you begin to work on dvbcut, keep me informed ;) -- Sven Over Stephanienstr. 9 76133 Karlsruhe Telefon: 0721-9204199 http://www.svenover.de/ _______________________________________________ DVBCUT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dvbcut-user
