[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Kevin Kuphal]

Craig Hagerman wrote:
> On 4/10/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>   
>> The frontend can
>> automatically skip based on those flags if you enable it.  Transcoding
>> can remove those commercials flagged if the flag list is converted to a
>> cutlist and passed to transcode.
>>
>> Kevin
>>     
>
>
> I have never understood how to do this. Could you explain how to
> transcode and cut commercials in some more detail? I use ffmpeg to
> transcode files to transfer to my laptop to watch. I assume I use
> something else for this?
>
>   
Watch the recording
Edit the recording from the OSD menu
Hit Z (I think) to load the commercial flag list as a cutlist
Exit
Schedule a manual transcode job

This assumes you have your Automatic transcoding profile set up and a 
few other things (see the documentation, I think it describes it) but 
that should be all.  I think you can also do it from the command-line 
quite easiliy using the command-line option of mythcommflag to generate 
a cutlist file and then pass that to mythtranscode.

Kevin