[mythtv-users] OT, general and long: transcoding

[Steven Adeff]

On 3/23/06, awrobinson at nc.rr.com <awrobinson at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> From: Tim <tim.tait1 at gmail.com>
> > awrobinson at nc.rr.com wrote:
> > >Here's a senario I'm interested in. I'd like to record my
> > >mother-in-law's favorite soap opera each weekday. I'd like to
> > remove the
> > >commercials. Then at the end of the week, I'd like to create a DVD of
> > >that week's episodes. The last part I think I know how to do. I've
> > been>using dvdauthor for about a year. Recording the episodes is
> > trivial with
> > >Myth. I've figured out how to get Myth to flag commercials. The
> > part I
> > >think I'm missing is getting Myth to transcode the video to actually
> > >remove the commercials and output in a format acceptable for DVD
> > >authoring. So can this be done and if so how?
> > >
>
> > >
> > The editing out commercials is easy. While playing it, press "e".
> > This
> > will put you in edit mode and pause playback. Then "z" to load the
> > commercial marks. You can use pgup/pgdn, <, >, and leftarrow,
> > rightarrow
> > to move through the recording. Press enter to bring up a cutpoint
> > menu.
> > Esc out when done, then playback will resume. Press "M" for menu,
> > select
> > transcoding. You can then exit out to recording menu.
> >
> > However, the converting nuv video files to a dvd compatible mpeg2
> > is
> > apparently not so easy, I will let someone else tackle that one.
> >
> > A lot of this stuff is probably out there if you search the mail-
> > list
> > archive <http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/> or
> > website/wiki <http://www.mythtv.info/>.
> >
>
> How can I do this automatically, without having to play the video? I'd
> like to automate as much of the process as possible.

commercial detection isn't perfect, you would risk improper cutting.

--
Steve