[mythtv-users] Cutting videos

[John Pilkington]

On 11/01/13 15:05, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 01/11/2013 08:49 AM, George Nassas wrote:
>> On 2013-01-11, at 3:02 AM, Malte Gell wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to really and physically cut the selected areas from the
>>> video? I guess this would require transcoding the whole video?
>>
>> Yes, you do have to transcode the whole video. Take a look here:
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythtranscode#Using_the_--mpeg2_Option_for_.28Virtually.29_Lossless_MPEG2_Transcode
>>
>
> This is exactly what the page you quoted in the original post (
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Editing_Recordings ) is attempting to say in
> the first paragraph:
> -----
> Editing a recording allows you to specify a cut list, which will cause
> MythTV to automatically skip over some areas of the recording during
> playback. This allows you to edit out the areas containing commercials.
> Once you have created a cut list, you may also choose to transcode
> <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Transcoding> the recording to remove the cut
> areas from the recording file.
> -----
>
> (and it even links to the wiki page on Transcoding:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Transcoding ).
>
> If that's not clear, please let us know what would make it more clear.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

There's the confusion that we've had before between 'Videos' and 
'Recordings'.  I suspect that in this case the file is a Recording. but 
they often need to be handled differently.