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

Chris Vargas ceenvee at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 4 09:03:19 EST 2005


If you're using a PVR-x50 and recording to MPEG2, the
default settings under Transcoders is to transcode
MPEG2 to RTJPEG (a higher-quality format which is
great for frame-accurate editing but as you discovered
is a lot less compressed than MPEG2).

If you want to do all your transcoding via MythTV's
interface, you just need to change your Transcoder
settings to transcode MPEG2 to MPEG4, instead of to
RTJPEG. Pick appropriate bitrate settings to get your
files down to the sizes you want. Then start viewing
your recording, load your commercial cut list, adjust
cuts if necessary, and start transcoding.

As someone mentioned in this thread, the latest
version of nuvexport (a command line utility, not part
of MythTV's GUI) can do MPEG2->MPEG2 cuts-only
transcoding, but only after loading the cut list via
the MythTV front end, and only after installing more
things than just nuvexport (lvemux and avidemux for
sure, probably other things too).


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