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

[Mike Perkins]

On 11/03/2023 22:02, John Pilkington wrote:
> 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.
> 
I thought you could use mythutil for that?

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Mike Perkins