<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 2013-01-11, at 3:02 AM, Malte Gell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Is there a way to really and physically cut the selected areas from the<br>video? I guess this would require transcoding the whole video?</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Yes, you do have to transcode the whole video. Take a look here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythtranscode#Using_the_--mpeg2_Option_for_.28Virtually.29_Lossless_MPEG2_Transcode">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythtranscode#Using_the_--mpeg2_Option_for_.28Virtually.29_Lossless_MPEG2_Transcode</a></div><div><br></div><div>for the built-in myth method. Sometime around the .26 release this stopped working for a few people (me included) for what sounds like a problem with ffmpeg. There was a recent ffmpeg resync that may have fixed things but I haven't yet upgraded to retry lossless transcoding.</div><div><br></div><div>When it's working the built-in lossless transcode is great.</div><div><br></div><div>- George</div></body></html>