[mythtv-users] How to run Commercial Detection on Video from DVD?

[Brian Wood]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> Now how do I get it into the "recordings" area, instead of "videos",
>> so I can edit it as a regular MythTV recording.
>>
>> I saw a reference to a "mythrebuilddatabase.pl" script someplace that
>> would seem to do that but it appears not to be a part of the regular
>> release, but rather a contributed script, but I don't know to what it
>> was "contributed".
>>
>> Or is there a better solution?
>
> myth.rebuild.database
>
> Probably installed on your system (unless you built Myth yourself--in
> which case, get it from the contrib directory of the mythtv source).
> You can always try (from BASH), "myth<Tab><Tab>" to see if it's
> installed.  If you use locate or find, make sure you type the name
> correctly.


Nope, not there.  I installed using Gentoo's "portage" system.  
Doesn't look like it imports the contribs, which I can understand.

But if the source is available it shouldn't be a problem.

Much thanks for the pointer(s).