[mythtv-users] Commercial Detection

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Mon Apr 10 18:58:53 UTC 2006


Braindead wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:53:30 -0500
> Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Craig Hagerman wrote:
>>     
>>> On 4/11/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
> <snip>
>   
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> Hrm, sounds like you could put 'mythcommflag --gencutlist' into a user defined task, and same with lossless transcode and effectively get automatic removal of commercials?
>   
Basically, I think with the 0.20 branch you can also define the 
command-line used for the standard jobs so you could modify them to do 
the same.  This is all assuming your commercial detection is 100% 
accurate and you don't ever get a false positive which would then be 
automatically cut out.

Kevin


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