[mythtv-users] best way to edit out comercials on a windows box after mythtv has recorded show and copied to windows

[Todd Ignasiak]

On 9/12/05, Ryan Kremser <ryan.kremser at gmail.com> wrote:
> As per the subject, i'm looking for the best software package (better if
> freeware) to edit out comercials using a windows xp computer.  I want to
> keep the files in mpeg2 so that i can burn them to dvd after, just without
> the comercials.  I've looked around and found quite a few but all of them
> seem to have conflicting reviews some recomended others say to keep away. 
> So any suggestions are welcome. 

I'm not sure if you're talking about SD or HD video.    But, for HD,
there is a good utility called HDTVtoMPEG2, which allows you to edit
HDTV transport streams to remove commercials or otherwise trim them
down.

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~balazer/HDTVtoMPEG2/


It has a nice visual representation of the MPEG content, showing the
data as a bar, with the portions to be removed shown in a different
color than the remaining data.     This provides a quick sanity check
on the commercial removal -- if two removals are too close or too far
apart it may point to an error or a missed commercial.     This would
be a great feature to have with the MythTV automatic commercial
flagging.