well, I've been messing around with nuv2disc (with the help of jams) and I now have nuv2disc running with avidemux2 to cut out the commercials... so... this is what I did...



*wait for it to download the newest version of nuv2disc and replace the copy in the /myth/nuv2disc directory you are in*
ok... so now you've got the newest version of nuv2disc and you can do the following more then one way, but this is how I did it...

I followed the instructions on the Knoppmyth wiki for installing avidemux2
http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/index.php?page=NuvexportMPEGcut
nothing too special here... I used version 2.0.36, (the wiki now uses a newer version).

I believe another way to do this is to run apt-get update; apt-get install avidemux as root... but I can't confirm that.

ok, so now we've got the newest version of nuv2disc and avidemux2 installed... but nuv2disc looks for avidemux not avidemux2 so...



look for the line that says:
DVDSUPPORT="tcprobe mpgtx dvdwizard mkfifo xine mplayer convert ppmtoy4m lvemux avidemux mplex $MPEG2DESC mpeg2enc ppmtoy4m mkisofs dvdauthor convert toolame transcode spumux"

and change it to:
DVDSUPPORT="tcprobe mpgtx dvdwizard mkfifo xine mplayer convert ppmtoy4m lvemux avidemux2 mplex $MPEG2DESC mpeg2enc ppmtoy4m mkisofs dvdauthor convert toolame transcode spumux"
the only difference is the first one looks for avidemux and the second looks for avidemux2

this isn't necessary, but it means that it tests to find avidemux2 to make sure everything will work...

then press ctrl-x and save changes to the file so that you can:

then:



skip down to the part that says:
#-----------------AVIDEMUX SETTINGS------------

then change any call to avidemux to avidemux2 and uncomment AVIDEMUX="avidemux2" and comment out "AVIDEMUX="xvfb-run avidemux2". so then it will look like this...

#AVIDEMUX="xvfb-run avidemux2"
AVIDEMUX="avidemux2"

this is a hack because currectly xvfb-run is giving us problems... and so it means that avidemux2 will in a window over the mythfrontend... it's ugly, but it's a hack. jams is working on this...

so anyway... if you do all that nuv2disc should work with R5A10 of KnoppMyth

another note... I currently have trouble with audio and video slightly being out of sync... it's just a couple of seconds, I'm guessing it's a problem with how avidemux2 is called...

Well I'm stumped. I just spent about six hours hacking at this all without success. I installed the latest versions of lvemux (source) and avidemux (apt-get - really avidemux2) had it hang in avidemux, and spent a bunch of time debugging without anything to show for it.

- nuvexport seems to have a mixture of names, avidemux in some places and avidemux2 in ohers. A symlink in /usr/bin got me past this but it's rather silly.

- As someone noted on the wiki avidemux doesn't like long files names. WTH? To an old pro that's a VERY bad sign. It usually means that there is something really silly like a fixed length array or a bad allocation in the code. Testing with short names got me a lot further but still no dice.

- Once debugging is enabled I'm getting the following traceback with normal filenames:

With short filenames (creating a symlink "x.nuv" to the file in question) the last part of that becomes:

Something is clearly very broken here... 8-(