[mythtv-users] best way to edit out comercials on a windows box after mythtv has recorded show and copied to windows

[Erik Pettersen]

This'll probably garner boos and hisses but... I use 
http://www.videoredo.com/  to edit mpeg2 files.  I haven't tried it
with MythTV generated files but I don't see how it would be any
different.

I also hear good things about womble's MPEG2VCR 

http://www.womble.com/

I believe both have trial periods.

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On 9/12/05, Todd Ignasiak <ignasiak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/12/05, Ryan Kremser <ryan.kremser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As per the subject, i'm looking for the best software package (better if
> > freeware) to edit out comercials using a windows xp computer.  I want to
> > keep the files in mpeg2 so that i can burn them to dvd after, just without
> > the comercials.  I've looked around and found quite a few but all of them
> > seem to have conflicting reviews some recomended others say to keep away.
> > So any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> I'm not sure if you're talking about SD or HD video.    But, for HD,
> there is a good utility called HDTVtoMPEG2, which allows you to edit
> HDTV transport streams to remove commercials or otherwise trim them
> down.
> 
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~balazer/HDTVtoMPEG2/
> 
> 
> It has a nice visual representation of the MPEG content, showing the
> data as a bar, with the portions to be removed shown in a different
> color than the remaining data.     This provides a quick sanity check
> on the commercial removal -- if two removals are too close or too far
> apart it may point to an error or a missed commercial.     This would
> be a great feature to have with the MythTV automatic commercial
> flagging.
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