[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

Craig Hagerman craighagerman at gmail.com
Mon Apr 10 15:50:14 UTC 2006


On 4/11/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> 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.
>

Thanks for the info Kevin. What I am really interested in is how to do
this manually from the command line if I am ssh-ing into my mythtv box
remotely to snag some recent recordings. Can anyone give a little more
info on how this is done?  Thanks

Craig


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