[mythtv-users] Comercial removing stupid question

[Matt Vollmar]

Juan C. Gallardo wrote:

> Hello to everyone.
>
> I have been wondering about the way comercial removing works, and I 
> need some help understanding it.
> Is there a way that remove the comercials automatlically after a 
> recording?
> I mean, I don't want to go to the menu, push a button to remove the 
> comercials, and all that. I just want to leave my shows recording and 
> when I am back home I play them and find them without comercials, is 
> that possible?
> If so, how?
>
> Thanks
>
> Juan
>
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If you do automatic transcoding, doesn't it do that?  If so, I wouldn't 
recommend it, anyway, as I have found the commercial flagging only 
marginally effective on certain stations.  Here is what I do, which is a 
little more work than what you want:

If it is a movie, I spend 5 minutes or so editing the movie using the 
"E" key while viewing.  I load the commercial detection with "Z", then 
skip from cut-point to cut-point making sure they are correctly 
positioned.  Some stations require repositioning or deletion of certain 
cut-points.  When I am done, I exit out with "ESC".  At this point, you 
can either watch with absolutely no commercials or actually transcode, 
which will remove the commercials entirely.  I do this on some bigger 
movies that I won't be watching for a little while.  Can save up to 1 GB 
of space on 4 hour movies (this is with MPEG-4).  Just make sure your 
transcoding settings are as high as your highest quality that you record 
with.

If this is not what you want, hope this might help someone else.

Matt