[mythtv-users] How to drop content between flagged commercials from video files?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Sep 19 16:32:43 UTC 2010


On Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:23:41 am Raymond Wagner wrote:
>   On 9/19/2010 12:17, Brian Wood wrote:
> > So be very careful, especially with live events that might not be easily
> > re-recorded. You might want to make a backup copy of the unadulterated
> > recording before any editing.
> 
> No harm can be done by editing the recording in the frontend.  The
> cutpoints aren't applied until you actually tell it to transcode.

I guess I should have said make sure you are satisfied with the cutpoints before transcoding. Up till that point you aer 
just changing database entries and not changing the recording file. A very nice feature about how Myth does things.

But a backup before transcoding couldn't hurt.



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