[mythtv-users] Re: Does transcoding remove commercials?

[Preston Crow]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 11:57, Kyle Kelly wrote:
> Sorry to break it to you, but with a pvr-x50 you cannot transcode back 
> to mpeg2, just to mpeg4 or RTjpeg.  There is possibly a way however to 
> do it with nuvexport, but its a bit convoluted  and I've yet to manage 
> to get it to work.

Yup.  Clipping out commercials without re-encoding is a popular feature
request, especially in the context of recordings from PVR-x50 and
HD-x000 cards.

Perhaps we want a separate option from transcoding to just remove the
cut sections.  (Not that transcoding shouldn't do that, also.)

For HDTV, we really need transcoding profiles to be dependent on the
source material resolution and dimensions, with the option to cut off
the side bars for material that is upscaled 4:3.

--PC