I think that the two goals are separate and complementary, and can be
pursued independently.
That's what I meant, but after reading it again it wasn't clear.
The goal of creating true video DVDs from Myth does, as you say,
require successful and consistent MPEG2 commercial cutting. Finding a
good solution to that problem is important.
Yes... also quite difficult as I've been discovering. Something
like GOPchop (or its successor gopdit?) is pretty close. Parsing the
MPEG2 streams without demuxing is necessary. Cutting chunks out requires
fixing missing referenced frames, and changing A/V PTS offsets afterwards
(since "time" now has a big hole in it). Those are just a few I can think
of right now.
At the same time, it would be worthwhile to create a method within
Myth to burn data DVDs of shows and then watch the shows archived on
those data DVDs from within Myth (without requiring them to be
imported). This goal is basic and there are currently no technical
barriers to its being achievable. I don't know a lot about Myth's
database setup, but I would think it should be possible for a module
or extension to the Watch Recordings to read a .sql file from a data
DVD to get the cutlist of a show on the DVD.
I agree... it should be pretty easy to do. A few weeks ago I
posted about not finding any exporting tool that *didn't* need things in
the database. IIRC, even nuvexport requires the database. That'd
probably be the easiest hack to do it.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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