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Did something like that a long while ago. Excel Spreadsheets and VBA (sorry, the only thing available) to do scoring and generate nice looking results for a golf league I played in. Used Excel 99 at the time. The whole time I'm thinking, why am I wasting my time on this, people have been doing this on paper for years. Took a couple of weeks. But I kept up and finished it. Fast forward 20 years, I no longer play in that league but they're still using the stuff I created. Get a question about it every once in a while. Moral: if it works, its worth doing. You never know how it will end up getting used.
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OriginalGriff wrote: [...] TV episodes in MP4, but they are stuttering when he plays them in VLC. A quick check, and they aren't indexed, so a quick run through Avidemux to copy the video and audio streams to a new file will fix that.
I need to learn more about that.
Last weekend I watched a 2+ hour music concert, ripped into MP4 format, and VLC would stutter and then lose the audio at some fixed times (as in, not random spots; if I restarted, it would lose the audio again at the exact same place). I could get the sound back by stopping/restarting the video, then skipping over the problematic spot. It just got progressively worse and worse, until I switched to Media Player to play back the file. But, everywhere VLC would stutter then lose the audio, I'd get a 1-2 second pause in Media Player. Could be just some bad encoding somehow, I have no idea.
Does this sound like the sort of thing that could be fixed by what you're describing? What's the process exactly? Just a straight copy of the audio and video streams through Avidemux without re-encoding?
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Exactly that problem!
Just drag'n'drop the MP4 onto Avidemux, and it'll build a .IDX2 file automatically if there is no index available. Make sure the video and audio streams are set to Copy, and the output is MP4 (so it won't re-encode the video and lose quality) and CTRL+S to save it as a new file (just in case, but I've had no problems).
Works beautifully for me!
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Does this IDX2 file now need to forever live alongside the MP4, or is it just some temp file that gets created while the new MP4 gets built?
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Just a temporary file, you can delete it when you delete the original MP4.
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If no such file was created...is that a sign the original was already properly indexed? (and, presumably, the stuttering is something unrelated...)
The output file actually came out slightly smaller - by roughly 3MB.
I suppose the real test will be to determine whether the stuttering is gone...and I don't have the 2+ hours for it right now.
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Probably - but if it's shorter then it's worth checking if the problem is gone. If you remember where it started stuttering, you could fast forward to the point on the original and new and see if they are different?
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Yeah, that's the problem...I didn't write any of these time references down. It happened at many "random" point (minutes apart), but playing the file back showed the problem still existed at the same locations every time, so it wasn't some temporary glitch with VLC.
I'm probably gonna have to sit through the original again until at least the first instance occurs, and then jump right to that location in the reprocessed file. But when it comes to these sorts of things, I don't take anything for granted...
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It's a programmer/developers life griff 
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Small boat disturbs water, nonetheless (6)
OK, as it's getting close to full time, try this alternative clue for the same answer...
Pull in the water, symbolically, regardless (6)
modified 18-Feb-19 7:43am.
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Are you sure it's six letters ?
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DerekTP123 wrote: Small boat disturbs water, nonetheless (6)
Scroti. As in a collection of Scrotums.
Michael Martin
Australia
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- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Collecting heads may be horrific, but justified when the heads are sufficiently hollow. However, I have no desire to see your collection.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Only in Oz are Scroti large enough to sail in.
And that's only because a spider bit them while trying to kill you ... 
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Wrong answer - a load of bollocks in fact... And it's scrota, not scroti. And now a search for "scrota" is in my internet search history as I do like to double-check. 
modified 18-Feb-19 6:47am.
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DerekTP123 wrote: Wrong answer - a load of bollocks in fact... And it's scrota, not scroti.
You weird Northern Hemisphere bastards.
DerekTP123 wrote: And now a search for "scrota" is in my internet search history as I do like to double-check.
Shoulda trusted me.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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OK, we give up, you win!
What was the solution?
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small boat = TUG
water = H2O, or HOH
T__UG
_HO__H
small boat disturbs water, nonetheless = THOUGH
... in my defence, I have seen people using element symbols before, and H2O is a pretty common term for water.
I'm up again tomorrow then?
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H2O is a term for water but I've not seen HOH ?
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Well, HHO would probably be fine, and "disturbs" works as an anagram identified anyway so the order of HOH doesn't really matter...
very tough clue though nonetheless
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Never thought of TUG ... got the H2O but missed the boaty bit...
Yes, you are up tomorrow!
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This describes my eldest exactly 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I always preferred a (small) glass of ice water over the head, my daughter now uses the same method on her teenagers
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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