[mythtv-users] MythTV commercial removal

[Chris Porter]

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:22 PM, jacek burghardt
<jaceksburghardt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thank you guys for the input. It is very helpfully. I been using mythtv
> since 0.22 days on and off but I never had mythv removing commercials. My
> recent try was no very successful. I selected flag commercials in mythweb
> and it completes and then I use trans coding but none of commercials are
> removed.
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 12:14 PM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-07-02, at 1:31 PM, Jon Heizer wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/2/2013 12:54 PM, jacek burghardt wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there a script for commercials removal. I would like transcode and
>>>> remove commercial so I can save movies.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's what mythtranscode is for.
>>>
>>> And http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Lossless_Cut
>>
>>
>> Translating into English as it’s commonly spoken: myth has an editing
>> feature where you can mark sections of a recording to be cut out and then
>> pass the “cutlist" to a program which does the actual cutting. The
>> mythtranscode program does this for mpeg2 material while the one described
>> at the link tries to do it for other formats (ie, h.264) and probably also
>> mpeg2.
>>
>> As part of the recording process myth tries to identify commercials. The
>> accuracy depends on where you are in the world, the channel you’re
>> recording, and the program. Sometimes it’s so good it’s spooky while other
>> times it’s totally out to lunch. In any case you can begin an editing
>> session by pulling in myth’s ideas of where commercials begin and end and
>> adjusting from there.
>>
>> I believe editing is covered in the online documentation so you can start
>> by reviewing that and coming back here if/when you get lost.
>>
>> - George
>>
>>
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You need to setup a user job for transcoding and removing commercials.  the
user job would use mythtranscode.

example user job command

mythtranscode --honorcutlist  (This command would transcode the video while
removing commercials)


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