[mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

Matt Price matt.price at utoronto.ca
Sat Jan 14 03:09:19 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:37:09PM -0800, Mudit Wahal wrote:
> There is a commercial_cut program available which can read the cutlist
> from the myth database and do a good job for removing the commercials.
> 
> I use that regulary to remove commercials from my HD programs. Its a 3
> step process.
> Run mythcommflag to find the detect commercials. Then run mythcommflag
> -gencutlist to load the cutlist. And then, run commercial_cut to
> remove the commercial.
> 
> I do this all from a single script without actually looking/editing
> the commercial points. I trust mythcommflag is doing very good job and
> I do detect almost all the commercials. Only one time, it deleted
> everything of the "Lost" episode after the first commercial.

this sounds excellent.  would you mind posting the script?  Just as a
reference point...

I find the commerc ial flagging is great on shows that actually have
commercials.  On shows recorded from public broadcasters it sometimes
flags parts of the program itself.  not sure what's doing that...

anyway thanks.

matt


> 
> On 1/13/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to save some space on my l'ill old drive but I am running a
> > pretty slow system (PIII-450, with a PVR350 doing all the heavy
> > lifting).  can't play dvd's on this system, for instance.  So I don't
> > think that transcoding will work well with this CPU.  Is it possible
> > instead just to cut comercials automatically?  that would at least
> > save me some space on the (relatively few) recordings we make on
> > commercial TV.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > matt
> >
> > Matt Price          matt.price at utoronto.ca
> > History Department, University of Toronto
> > (416) 978-2094
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Matt Price	    matt.price at utoronto.ca
History Department, University of Toronto
(416) 978-2094
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