[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

[Kevin Kuphal]

Craig Hagerman wrote:
> 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
>   
mythcommflag --gencutlist

will copy the current flagging marks to a cutlist

Then I think it's just

mythtranscode --honorcutlist

Both require additional parameters such as the filename or 
starttime/channel to the recording in question but I think that's about it.

Kevin