[mythtv-users] dvd respecting cutlist

[Chris Petersen]

> Another 2 cents added to the discussion.  I'm also in the middle of the 
> 'automatic cutlist' thing, and somebody (rightly) brought up the 
> unfortunate reality that the cutlist is not always accurate, and editing 
> your source video sight unseen can result in some nasty editing 
> mistakes.  An alternate that I am currently doing is taking the cutlist 
> and dumping it into an EDL (edit decision list) for mplayer to skip the 
> commercials.  That way, if it's wrong, at least they'll still  be there 
> for me to see.  This works for me since I view most of my transcoded 
> shows using mplayer, but it (obviously) wouldn't work for other folks.

Well, if avidemux2 ever starts working entirely from the command line, I 
understand that it's fairly easy to use it to import a cutlist, and then 
export a "cut" version without reencoding.

I'll be getting a pvr-250 type card soon, so will be inclined to add a 
wrapper utility to go along with nuvexport.  Although I'm still hoping 
that mythtranscode will eventually support this ability natively (what 
ever happened to that?  I thought that it was nearing completion, and 
then never heard another word).

-Chris