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

[Kevin Kuphal]

Nick wrote:

>On 12/09/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
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>>Todd Ignasiak wrote:
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>>>On 9/12/05, Ryan Kremser <ryan.kremser at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>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.
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>>>http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~balazer/HDTVtoMPEG2/
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>>>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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>>Perhaps you have never edited a recording in MythTV.  Watch something,
>>click M or MENU to bring up then menu and select Edit Recording.  You
>>can load your commercial skip list into the cutlist by pressing Z I think.
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>Does Myth do lossless MPEG2 cutting? I thought it could only export into MPEG4.
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Myth doesn't do any cutting internally.  It relies on outside tools to 
edit the video using the cutlist.

Kevin