Status of Windows tools

[willieb9000@y...]

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "Dale E. Reed Jr." <daler@n...> wrote:
> I was going to put a package together this weekend using the new 
all-in-one
> win32 module, but I'm having some network problems between my tivo 
and
> it. Most of my test have been with tystream files I pulled off my 
tivo
> (since
> I don't like waiting 20 mins per hour show to pull the shows over 
tivonet
> while testing).
> 
> My tests with the tystream files have been excellent, though. 
Video and
> Audio are in sync the whole movie. There is an issue with it 
bombing
> under certain stream errors that ConverStream handles better. I 
need to
> implement the ConvertStream behavior so it will finish the stream.
> 


Hi again Dale --- So is your Win32 App going to convert on the fly? 
I thought from your earlier posts you were going to use 
ExtractStream -s to dump to the windows box and then convert there. 
But if you are having networking probs then apparently you aren't 
doing it that way. 
That is good news that you seem to have overcome the sync problem --
that is my boggest problem to date too. I really wish I knew more 
about how to help, but my programming skills are weak, although I do 
consider myself fairly skilled at tinkering with computers. Keep us 
posted about your progress. 
THanks for the input on your codecs too -- glad to know I am not 
the only one that WMP craps out on all the time. 
Oh, almost forgot, are the Mpegs that are resulting form your app 
able to be fully controlled using the sliders for FF and Rew in the 
players. The ones I am creating (I have the sync right in the 
beginning and almost right at the end) have the slider for moving 
around in the video about half way through, but then it doesn't work 
anymore. For example, I play Friends and the little slider slowly 
moves to the right as it plays. Friends is 30 min long, and I get 30 
min of video, but the slider makes it all the way to the right at 
around the 13 minute mark. After that, it just stays there as it 
plays the rest of the file. Weird, huh? My guess is that some type of 
time code is missing from the streams I extracted. If I recall, 
Friends had 2 FSids and I bet the 13 min is the first one and the 
part with no control is the second.