[mythtv-users] Deleting commercials and transcoding

[Matthew M Murphy]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> 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)


Where does the MPEG4 version end up when you press X?  Do you need to have
the MPEG4 transcoding profile set up in order for this to work?