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Re: Post Emerald Crunchie
Impact,
No problems. I've dropped plenty of hints during the Beta and quiet openly of late that Crunchie will just not work with post Emerald recordings.
I say "won't work".. What that really means is that the results are not guaranteed. It may work. If it doesn't then that's just another downside of Emerald for you for the time being.
It will get fixed. At this point there is no way of telling what the side affects of trying to use Crunchie on post Emeral files will be. Cutoff files, no Audio, screwed video, it's all possible, aspect ratios failures, deinterlacing of progressive content etc etc....
The point is that Crunchie worked well for what it was designed for (Interlaced SD content recorded in Australia), fortunately and with a few modifications it was made to work internationally. HD is a whole different kettle of fish.
MCE is dumb in terms of Audio too. All stations broadcast an mpeg audio stream in the .ts whether there is AC3 as well or not. Of course we all wanted AC3 so that's what we got, there's no way to tell MCE to record the mpeg audio in a HD broadcast instead of the AC3. That's why your ABC programme has no audio, it will have AC3 audio.
It'll work like this:
If broadcast has AC3 then record AC3.
If broadcast does not have AC3 then default to mpeg (and crunchie will work).
But that's all now at the whim of the broadcasters.
So to everyone out there using Crunchie. Be warned!! Until I can get the fixes done (and that's assuming I can with mencoder), your results will vary.
Fortunately jgrouse has done some very positive looking tests so I think it'll just be a matter of time...
Cheers,
Arkay.
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