[mythtv-users] Web based 'cutpoint' editing

Anthony Giggins seven at seven.dorksville.net
Thu Dec 29 03:19:33 UTC 2011


On 19 September 2011 06:47, Robert Logan <bert at p3rf3ct.com> wrote:

> On 18/09/2011 17:16, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> > Am 18.09.2011 12:50, schrieb Robert Logan:
> >> The problem I had with that is the time it took to move around a large
> >> file, say a movie (4GB) leads to a lot of disk IO, and some considerable
> >> 'waits'- although I was using ffmpeg rather that mplayer as my tool -
> >> perhaps its better in that respect.
> > The reason I've chosen mplayer was, that I could use the recordedseek
> > table for fast generation of the thumbnails, and assuring that cutting
> > is done at B-frames. I tried ffmpeg at first, but was unhappy with the
> > result. I do not have any problems with 6GB files on a moderate sized
> > machine. In the recordedseek table there's a file offset for any
> > B-frame, and that makes it very easy to compute the mythtv cutpoint.
>
> Wow - never even thought of that! I may retry with mplayer now, and the
> seek info ... well .. makes eminently good sense. I will have to try
> something with that.
>
> > Yes, Ajax could make the interface much better. Especially frame loading
> > and "more/all frames" could profit from Ajax. Another nice addition
> > would be start transcoding / modify transcoding options directly from
> > the application.
>
> The former - yes - interface wise, its much more intuative, but
> thereafter, well, it could certainly evolve into something that extends
> myths capabilites. As a long time user, its only fair in my eyes to try
> and help.
>
> Hey ho - a new iteration for me I suspect.
>
>
Any update on this perhaps some code to release for testing/review :)

Cheers,

Anthony
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