[mythtv-users] command line to create a recording?

[John Pilkington]

On 11/03/2023 21:06, David Engel wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 03:52:18PM -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> There is an open source program called comskip that is available via apt. I
>> am using that to flag commercials. For videos I specify that it should not
>> use logo detection. My script is here
> 
> Do you use comskip because mythcommflag doesn't work well for you?  I
> occasionally wonder if we shouldn't switch to comskip since no bobody
> really works on mythcommflag anymore.  The last time I compared the
> two, though, comskip was better in some cases and mythcommflag was in
> others.  One advantage that mythcommflag still has is real-time
> detection.
> 
> David

I still use mythcommflag --rebuild, not to do automatic flagging but to 
rebuild the seektable and re-establish the relationships between byte 
position, time into recording and frame number.  It also resets the file 
size after cuts have been applied.

One thing that puzzles me is that for most files the processing rate 
will be several thousand fps, while for other files on the same channel 
it will be around a tenth of that.  Some aspect of the encoding, 
obviously, but I don't know what it is.

John P