[mythtv-users] MythTranscode/Commercial Cutlist/Manual Cutlist/etc

[Garett Harnish]

Okay, I'm a little confused and my wanderings through the archives are 
not helping too much.  Does MythTranscode honour cutlist or do I have to 
use MythMkMovie for that?  Also someone mentioned in one of their 
e-mails one could copy the auto-commercial skip list by using the 
playback option and pressing 'Z'.  Then one could review to see if the 
cutlist is accurate ... but how does one do that?  Also another person 
said to setup manual cutpoints press 'X', which when I attempted that 
froze Myth complete and the console spewed onward about transcoding 
failure None-to-None. or something to that effect.  

So I guess the real questions are if I'm using a PVR-250 and am 
recording a hour show that is eating up a swackload of hard drive space 
(~3,793,980,956 bytes), how do I:

a) create a commercial cutlist automatically or manually and how do I 
review said cutlist to ensure it is correct?

b) remove the commercials in Myth without re-encoding the whole file 
(somewhere it was mentioned that it only encodes the frame which the cut 
was made, leaving the rest intact thus keeping the quality and reducing 
encoding time and load ... this is preferred).  Also is there a way to 
make this low-priority?

c) envoke something like mencoder to convert the de-commercialized 
mpeg-2 file to XviD/lamemp3 avi at a low priority level so it doesn't 
mess up  recordings or live-tv viewing.

d) automate steps b & c from within myth (if possible) or from cron if not.

Thanks in advance.

--
Garett