tscombine: a simple tool to combine two transport streams for error reduction

[dumbledore]

hi there

i wrote this tool a few months ago and feel that it's become pretty usable now, so i thought i would post it here. i wrote it because my clear-qam cable captures had annoying glitches in them here and there, and it was very difficult for me to get an error-free stream capture. likewise, over-the-air atsc had the same problem. however since both streams were from the same source, i was able to write a tool to detect and correct what errors it could at the transport stream level, resulting in a (potentially) bit-exact replication of the source broadcast.

to use the tool:
take two recordings of the same showing (the tool will cut off any leading and trailing parts which don't occur in both recordings), and run "tscombine.exe file1.ts file2.ts out.ts". it will provide information regarding progress as it processes the files.

i'm also going to include the source code, in the hopes that if someone else finds this useful, they can develop it further. i've made a few comments in the source as far as a few ideas of my own for improvements, but as it servers my current needs fine already i'm unmotivated to actually code them . my only request is that if you do change the code to something better, that you post the code changes in this thread so others can benefit as well.

one final note: it should be possible to recompile this into linux without too much difficulty (i originally developed it on an ubuntu box).