Status of Windows tools ==> Linux Solutions

[Oscar Fowler]

Well, that all sounds reasonable and makes sense. Is anyone working 
on solutions for these issues? Is there any hope? =)


--- In ExtractStream@y..., charlie@a... wrote:
> The TyStream format has synchronization marks that lock the audio 
and 
> video streams together, so if there were any small errors you'd 
never 
> notice them on TiVO itself, only after you try to throw all the 
> timing data away and turn it into a format that contains no timing 
> information (MPEG elementary streams) and then try to make it 
> synchronize.
> 
> This is definitely the cause of shows that *start out* 
> desynchronized. TiVo doesn't care whether or not it starts the 
> streams at the exact same time, because it doesn't have to care.
> 
> There's another cause of de-synchronization mid way through the 
show 
> that I've discovered. Extract stream has a nasty habit of getting 
> chunks in the wrong place - I mean really wrong, like a half hour 
out 
> of place. These mis-placed chunks get thrown away at conversion 
time 
> and you pretty much never miss them, except that the chunk didn't 
> hold an equal amount of audio and video. Get it?