[mythtv-users] Solved: CC (and maybe Teletext) to DVD

[Anthony Zawacki]

faginbagin wrote:
>> Would you be able to add the ability to edit out commercials or would 
> that
>> be too difficult to implement?  I came up with a subtitling solution 
> as well
>> but hit a wall with trying to cut out commercials because running
>> mythtranscode strips out the vbi data.
> 
> Anyway, I have come up with an alternative approach. I've tinkered with
> mythburn.py (the 0.20.2 version). One of the things I've done is to
> create chapter marks using the commercial marks mythcommflag stores in
> the database. As a result, you can use your DVD remote's skip buttons to
> bypass the commercials. I'm planning to include a patch for anyone who's
> interested. I skimmed the latest code in trunk, and I think there's a
> good chance my patch might apply cleanly to the latest mythburn.py

Using this information, shouldn't it be possible to create the dvd in a 
way that the default movie would then automatically skip the commercials 
by arranging the chapter order?  You would still have the commercials on 
the dvd in unreferenced chapters, but you would still get captions and 
the movie would play straight through.

I got bit by the fact that lossless transcoding in mythtv actually 
strips out the vbi when the various streams are broken apart, cut, and 
then put back together, and we had to watch several shows without 
captions.  I have the same issue when transcoding to DVDs.

Disk is cheap in comparison to getting a high WAF, so transcoding is 
simply not used in our house, as captions are just short of mandatory.

Anthony