[mythtv-users] Alternative commercial cut program

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 11, 2008, at 11:23 AM, John Finlay wrote:

> Every time I try to use mytharchive to back up a recording to dvd
> mythtranscode fails to remove the commercials I manually set in the
> cutlist because it encounters some corruption in the recording.  
> Usually
> the corruption is so minar that it's hard to tell that there is
> corruption. Is there a transcoder that is more robust in the face of
> errors than mythtranscode and works with US recordings? I've seen a
> mention of projectx, would that work better?

I used to use mencoder a while back, but lately I've been using ffmpeg.
I can't remember what engine mythtranscode uses.

Also, I find it works better if you set cutmarks, transcode, then use  
MythArchive without any cutting options on.