Hi Levente

> Thank you Martin, this is a nice description!

Happy to help :-)   It was my first wiki experience too... as I said, I
really have been living in a cave for the last 2,000 yrs !

> When recording from TV, I usually cut out commercials from the stream
> with dvbcut (which is not only for MPEG-TS, in spite of its name). I
> haven't had good luck with GOPchop (it crashed all the time)

Good tip - I will certainly give dvbcut a try.  Gopchop has been solid
for me through many different versions.  The only thing that I find it
makes it crash is when it uses an accelerated video driver.  Try using
it with the plain old X11 driver: gopchop -v x11 <filename> and you may
find it's a bit more reliable...

> additionally, dvbcut has individual frame precision. If the cut does not
> happen to be on an I frame, dvbcut recreates all the previous frames
> needed to make the first frame an I frame.

Very clever, I like the sound of that.

> A side question, maybe someone knows the answer (Hans?): why do the
> captures (Hauppauge PVR-150, stream type DVD) contain often PTS jumping
> back in time? Could this be in relation to an NTP daemon running in the
> background and adjusting periodically the hardware clock? I admittently
> don't know exactly how the PTS are calculated and what is their relation
> to the hw clock.

All I can say is that from my brief dive into the subject the whole
topic of PTS is a bit of a black art: far more complex than I was
expecting (and I'm a pretty experienced professional engineer).  I'm
just amazed that tools like dvdauthor work at all.

IMO it's not anything to do with the NTP daemon though.

Krgds, M


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