[mythtv-users] Alternatives to lossless transcode

[Paul Gardiner]

On 11/11/2013 05:38, mark wrote:
> On 06/11/13 20:04, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> mark <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> hate to say it but I've had a failure now (lossless mythtranscode to
>>> remove commercials then post-process with Handbrake).
>> I'm not suggesting that lossless transcode shouldn't be fixed, but
>> since you are post processing with handbrake your purpose in using it
>> is to avoid two lossy steps, so why not just do it in one step by
>> using mythtranscode in --fifodir mode, running the result into ffmpeg.
>> I've been getting perfect results that way for some time now. I
>> attached a script to the mythtranscode wiki page.
>> _______________________________________________
> Thanks Paul, but I am keen to remove the commercials as well. Partly
> because of storage constraints but partly to not have to skip them
> whenever I watch things again later. My reading of the wiki was that
> --fifodir does not remove the commercials and just outputs the raw streams.

There's a --honorcutlist option (which my script uses). That will remove
the commercials... well I guess you need to go into the cutlist editor
and tell it to apply the commercial flagging as a cutlist, but I thought
you had to do that with lossless transcode too. There's also a
--cleancut option that improves cutting by doing the last 200ish frames
of each cut by skipping rather than trying to jump to the exact end.

Cheers,
	Paul.