[mythtv-users] mythvideo, Q#1 (why "video"?)

Mike Jasper e394td at comcast.net
Wed May 26 12:08:42 EDT 2004


On 5/26/2004 3:21 AM, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Mike Jasper wrote:
> 
>> On 5/25/2004 4:39 PM, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>>
>>> Douglas Beck wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wrote a script that automatically converts all my recorded 
>>>> programs to lower bitrate DivX files and stuffs them in the videos 
>>>> directory.  So I have hundreds of videos in my MythVideo list but 
>>>> only one or two are movies.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just out of curiosity...  Why?
>>>
>>> Wouldn't you be better served by just using the built transcode and 
>>> leaving them in the recodings section?  Heck with .15 you'll even get 
>>> nifty recording groups to organize them with.
>>
>>
>>
>> Doesn't the built-in transcode use the cutlists created by by 
>> mythcommflag?  That's the reason I haven't been using it.  The auto 
>> commercial flagging doesn't work that great on the shows I'm 
>> transcoding, so I've been manually flagging commercials and then using 
>> nuvexport.
> 
> 
> 
> Only if you explicitly import flagged commercials into the cutlist via 
> the video editor.  For exactly that reason.
> What kind of mistakes are you seeing from the comm flagger?  I've been 
> meaning to take a look at it.

Got it - so if not explicitly loading the flagged commercials, the 
transcoder just transcodes the entire show.

I watched "24" after commercial flagging was complete.  I have myth set 
so that it just pops up a box when a commercial is detected, then I 
press the button to skip the commercial.  At one point when I pressed 
the button it skipped ahead 9 minutes.  There was a thread about this a 
few weeks ago - most people said the flagging works around 90% of the 
time.  That's pretty good, IMO.

> 
>> If I'm wrong about how the built-in transcode works, please let me 
>> know - I would love to automate the process.
> 
> 
> 
> You could always bring up the editor, import the flagged commercials and 
> then tweak them before using the built in transcoder.

Ok, I'll check that out.  Thanks!



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