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

Dave Richardson mythtv at derdev.com
Mon Sep 20 11:42:39 UTC 2010


On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:32:43 -0600, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks gents, I'll give it a try.


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