[mythtv-users] edit recordings without watching them

[Cougar]

Is there way to edit recording when it is not possible to watch it online? 

Most of my shows are recorded with 6000 - 8000 bps. There are a lot of 
commercials inside, sometimes up to 50% of total length. So it wastes a 
lot of disk space. Commercial autodetecting gets a lot of false positives 
inside commercial breaks (there are often black frames during commercial 
breaks). Because of this it is not possible to start transcoder 
automatically and needs some manual edit of cutpoints before.

Now lets imagine that I'm out of home where I can access my BE but I have 
only 2 Mbps uplink from my house. When I'm away days, I'd like edit 
cutlist remotely and start transcoding jobs to get everything ready for 
time I'm back at home.

Right now it is not possible to enter edit mode without playing the 
recording. Of course it is not possible to play it over 2 Mbps link. FE 
gets something like that if I start playing recording and imediately press 'E'

2006-03-15 12:26:38.589 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2006-03-15 12:26:38.749 Disable DPMS
2006-03-15 12:26:39.941 RingBuf(myth://10.0.0.1:6543/1091_20060314200400.mpg): Taking too long to be allowed to read..
2006-03-15 12:26:41.757 RingBuf(myth://10.0.0.1:6543/1091_20060314200400.mpg): Taking too long to be allowed to read..
[mpeg @ 0x40a74378]Parser not found for Codec Id: 94210 !
2006-03-15 12:26:58.930 TV Error: StartPlayer(): NVP is not playing after 20000 msec
2006-03-15 12:26:58.963 TV: Changing from None to WatchingPreRecorded
2006-03-15 12:26:59.011 Cannot edit - no full position map
2006-03-15 12:26:59.011 TV: Attempting to change from WatchingPreRecorded to None
0: start_time: 0.036 duration: 302.296
1: start_time: 2457.051 duration: 302.347
2: start_time: 0.029 duration: 302.309
stream: start_time: 0.321 duration: 30659.655 bitrate=749 kb/s
2006-03-15 12:27:02.387 AFD: Opened codec 0x92941c0, id(MPEG2VIDEO) type(Video)
2006-03-15 12:27:02.433 AFD: Opened codec 0x9294840, id(MP2) type(Audio)
2006-03-15 12:27:05.855 New DB connection, total: 3
2006-03-15 12:27:05.959 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 10.0.0.1
2006-03-15 12:27:06.049 Video timing method: DRM
2006-03-15 12:27:06.148 TV: Changing from WatchingPreRecorded to None

Basically in edit mode when I need to see only still frames it should be 
possible to use much slower link than realtime playback needs.

The way to overcome this I propose something like this:

- add 'Edit' to the recording menu (right arrow from recrodings screen)
- make it possible to enter directly to the edit mode where you can later
  - exit with ESC or
  - go to playback with 'E' if it is possible (enough bandwidth available) 
    but stay in edit mode if it is not possible

What do you think about that?

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Cougar