[ExtractStream] Re: Splitstream Survey

[Roger Merchberger]

--- Ken Hancock <hancockks@y...> wrote:
> --- In ExtractStream@y..., Roger Merchberger <zmerch7@y...> wrote:
> > --- Ken Hancock <hancockks@y...> wrote:
> > > --- In ExtractStream@y..., Roger Merchberger <zmerch7@y...>
> wrote:
> > > > I just downloaded & tried the Elecomp Mpeg2 player - I don't
> > > monkey
> > > > with DVD's on my main computer, so I don't need the extra
> stuff.
> > > It
> > > > plays mpeg2's very well, and it even plays the Tivo raw
> streams!
> > > > Granted, with the audio frames mixed in, it looks like
> hell...
> > > but I
> > > > was suprised it didn't barf.
> > > 
> > > Huh? When I was using netmplex (back before I foobared my
> drive
> > > with 
> > > MFSTools restore), the resulting multiplexed .mpg file played 
> > > flawlessly (video and audio) with Elecard's MPEG-2 player.
> > 
> > Having never used netmplex, I'm not all that intelligent as to
> it's
> > use -- but it was always my understanding that netmplex received
> a
> > pre-seperated tystream and re-knit them into a standard MPEG2...
> but
> > I could be wrong.
> 
> No, you're correct -- that's exactly what it does. It takes the
> audio and video 
> streams and merges them together. If ExtractStream works correctly
> and 
> reads chunks correctly, it'll output one audio for every video so
> there's no 
> synchronization problems.

That's what I thought. So am I also correct in assuming that the raw
tystream is *not* a standard MPEG2 -- or else why do we have to do
all this crazy "extract - convert - knit" stuff?

Just tryin' to learn...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger


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