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

[John Pilkington]

On 11/03/2023 22:37, Mike Perkins wrote:
> 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?

Usually Linux has many ways of doing the same thing.  I've been using 
mythcommflag --rebuild for years and it was tweaked long ago to 
reproduce the seektables created during recording.  It ain't broke, just 
has this feature...
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