[mythtv-users] Cutting commercials without expensive transcod ing

Boyd II, Willy wboyd at fulbright.com
Fri Mar 12 15:03:10 EST 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:ray at comarre.com] 
>Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 12:27 PM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Cutting commercials without 
>expensive transcoding
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> but in fact I don't know of any actual software (I've only 
>looked for Open Source/free software) that will do it ... I'm 
>guessing due 
>to patent issues, but I really do not know why no one offers 
>the ability to 
>keyframe edit MPEG2.

avidemux2 is one such Open Source software which can keyframe edit MPEG2.

Note that the previous poster said it took 48 minutes to cut *and transcode
for SVCD* a half hour show.  That transcode is optional.


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>I did find a reference to a shareware (Windows) product called 
>MPEG2VCR. 
>Its description say the following:
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>"No re-encoding when editing DVD-compliant MPEG2 captures from 
>the latest 
>USB/DVD capture boxes. When using these sources to create a 
>movie for DVD 
>burning, you will not have to wait for many hours while your movie is 
>re-encoded. Instead, your edited video will be written back to 
>disk as fast 
>as any disk-to-disk copy operation."
>
>See http://www.womble.com/products.htm for more details. But a 
>$US 70, it 
>is not a cheap solution.
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