[mythtv-users] Deleting commercials and transcoding

[Malcolm]

Thanks for the info.  I guess Mythtv's commercial cutting is not quite ready
for us mpeg2 guys.  I'll see if I can get a windows box in the mean time see
what I can figure out.  Maybe through a samba share just access the files
cut the commercials and save them right back mpeg2 --> mpeg2.  I've seen
some utils that will do a 2 gig movie file in about a minute.  I think
that's because it doesn't re-transcode the file, it just modifies it (delete
the commercial sections) or however that works.  I'm no transcoding expert.

Thanks again.
Malcolm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Donavan Stanley" <jdonavan at jdonavan.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Deleting commercials and transcoding


> malcolm-mythtv wrote:
>
> >On Thursday 05 February 2004 09:55 pm, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
> >
> >
> >>These are MythTV features.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >That sounds good.  I tried playing around with it some to figure it out.
> >keys.txt leaves a lot to the imagination.  I assume to edit commercials
out
> >of a file you go to "watch recordings" and then select a recording?  Then
> >when it's playing hit "m" which brings up a progress bar at the bottom of
the
> >screen.  I then hit Z to load the commercial list.  From there it gets
kinda
> >iffy and I'm not sure what more to do?
> >
> >Also since I record with a pvr-250 card can commercials be cut out of the
> >mpeg2 file without having to re-transcode?
> >
> >
> >
>
> Marking commercials and marking cutpoints are two different things.  You
> turn on commcercial flagging in the setup section of the frontend.
>
> The "m" key lets you mark cut points (sections to be skipped over during
> playback / transcode).  You can load your automagicly marked commercials
> as cutpoints, tweak them and what not.  Pressing the space bar while in
> this edit mode allows you to mark a point as a cut point.  You block out
> sections by creating high/low water marks of "Delete after this frame" /
> "delete before this frame" cutpoints.
>
> If you press "X" during playback it will mark the file to be
> transcodeded to MPEG4 (in your case).  Anything marked with the cutlist
> will be removed from the transcoded file.
>
> Right now there's no good way to transcode from MPEG2 to MPEG2 and
> remove commercials.  There's some rough code in CVS but it was some
> issues that need resolved before it's usable.  (Which is one of the
> reasons I've not finished the DVD modules yet)
>
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