[mythtv-users] Trouble removing ads with mythtranscode

[Rod Smith]

On Friday 13 April 2007 17:52, Benton Roberts wrote:
>
> William wrote:
> > Set up a transcode profile for lossless mpeg to mpeg transcoding
> > ...
>
> That works, but replaces the original file with the commercials-removed
> file. While this may be desirable for some, I don't want to actually
> delete content that might be incorrectly flagged from the
> full-resolution (archival) source.

This may have been stated earlier in this thread, which I've not been 
following extremely closely, but....

Transcoding does *NOT* remove commercials that have been flagged using 
mythcommflag *UNLESS* you manually import those detected commercials into the 
cut list. Of course, this means that lossless transcoding will also save very 
little disk space. (It shaves off a small amount for me, usually about 0.1GB; 
I'm not sure why.) To save the disk space used by commercials, you must 
either import the commflag data as a cut list, manually locate and cut the 
commercials, or do a combination of the two (by loading the commercial flags 
as a cut list and then checking that it's accurate).

-- 
Rod Smith
http://www.rodsbooks.com