[mythtv-users] MythTranscode/Commercial Cutlist/Manual Cutlist/etc
Garett Harnish
garett at chaos.za.org
Fri Sep 19 17:56:16 EDT 2003
Chris Petersen wrote:
>>Okay, I'm a little confused and my wanderings through the archives are
>>not helping too much. Does MythTranscode honour cutlist or do I have to
>>use MythMkMovie for that?
>>
>>
>
>manually invoking mythtranscode (pressing X while watching the
>recording) will process the cutlist without reencoding the show (please
>correct me if I'm wrong about this - does it only not reencode if the
>transcode and recording profiles are the same?). Either way, it
>processes the cutlist.
>
Excellent. That definitely clears up that bit of confusion I was having.
>> Also someone mentioned in one of their
>>e-mails one could copy the auto-commercial skip list by using the
>>playback option and pressing 'Z'. Then one could review to see if the
>>cutlist is accurate ... but how does one do that?
>>
>>
>
>while in edit mode (press M while watching), you can press Z and if the
>commercials have been flagged (either manually by running mythcommflag,
>or if autoflag is enabled in the setup), they will be imported as a
>cutlist, which you will be able to see in the editor. I've found that
>this isn't entirely accurate, and I have to move the cut points a few
>frames forward/back, but doing this it takes me about 30 seconds to
>create a cutlist for a show (as long as that "rebuffering" error doesn't
>creep up and cause myth to hang).
>
Ausgezeichnet! Are these features (and other like them) documented
anywhere? IE: Is there a key list around?
>>c) envoke something like mencoder to convert the de-commercialized
>>mpeg-2 file to XviD/lamemp3 avi at a low priority level so it doesn't
>>mess up recordings or live-tv viewing.
>>
>>
>
>grab nuvexport from http://forevermore.net/myth/ because as far as I
>know, mythmkmovie hasn't been updated to take advantage of the new
>fifodir settings in mythtranscode, and mplayer/mencoder haven't been
>updated to handle myth's alterations to the nuv file format.
>
>
All right, that should at least get me started. Thank you much Chris.
--
Garett
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