On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Michael Riepe <mich...@mr511.de> wrote:
>
> Cengiz Gunay wrote:
>
> > This may be worthwhile, because if the file contains multiple PIDs, the
> > user may want to select them. But then again, this may not be dvbcut's
> > job. Another utility (?) can be used to filter the PIDs.
>
> You can already select an audio track for playing, and disable tracks
> before you export the file. In fact, you can disable them all (that
> happened to me once, and I wondered for hours where the audio had gone).
>
Oh, yes, I didn't realize that because I always had a single audio track.
But what if the file contained multiple video PIDs starting at different
locations in the file? This would happen if you switched channels during a
digital recording or if you were saving the all the streams in a base
frequency. My cable stream broadcasts two or three channels in one stream if
I could record them directly with a ATSC card (I use firewire to get a
single stream these days).
> If you're planning to rewrite the whole thing it may be worth considering
> adding an extension for scripting. If you write the C programs with a good
> interface (such as SWIG; swig.org), they can be easily called from a
> scripting language (such as python, perl, etc.). This will simplify the
> development for making the GUI, etc.
I wouldn't say that I'm "planning". Well, I would like to, but I lack
> the time, like most of us.
:) Of course.
> If I had to, however, I would concentrate on the core functionality, put
> it in a (C/C++) library, write a command line wrapper for indexing and
> exporting, and let other people deal with the graphic interface(s).
That sounds pretty good actually. DVBCUT has a lot of core functionality
that is not accessible outside of the GUI right now. It would be very nice
to have it at the command line both for other GUI developers and scripters.
:)
Well, maybe I would write one myself, but definitely not based on Qt.
> And I would definitely leave all the fancy stuff - themes and such - to
> others. It's not my world - I'd rather write FORTRAN code for a living.
:D
-Cengiz
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