[mythtv-users] Recordings and commercials

[Ant Daniel]

On 28/07/06, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
>    I understand one can instruct MythTV to skip commercials when
> capturing video. I also believe that MythTV just captures everything,
> then processes the captured material (How?) and then when playing it,
> MythTV can automatically skip the commercials in the recording. But,
> if I understand things correctly, the commercials are still there all
> right.
>
>   My question is, Is there a simple way to obtain MPEG files from
> MythTV recordings, such that the commercials are already removed from
> them. One can always edit the video material and remove the
> commercials by hand, but since MythTV already knows how to do that, I
> was wondering if it can be coerced into producing MPEG files without
> the commercials.

I suggest you read http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Removing_Commercials