[mythtv-users] Re: MPEG2 to MPEG2 commercial cutting?

[Grant Edwards]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:24:47AM -0700, Blammo [doh] wrote:

> I would love to see this working. It's pointless, for example to burn
> your commericals to DVD along with the program you want to burn.

If all you want to do is cut commercials, there are two
programs that are working on doing that without doing any
transcoding.  One is GOPchop and I forget the name of the other
one.  My understanding is that they don't actually
decompress/decode the video, they just delete the frames you
want deleleted.  However, since the _aren't_ decoding, frames
have to be deleted in the chunks defined by the encoding
scheme, so you can't guarantee precise cut-points.

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Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com