[mythtv-users] Transcoding/Commercial Cut User jobs

[Jim Abernathy]

On 01/19/2017 09:43 PM, Ben wrote:

hey all,

Now that's I've switched up to 0.28 and am back on OTA having cut the comcast cord, I'd like to start archiving movies I record on some of the "flash-back" stations.

 Don't laugh -  but I've been a pretty light user of some of the really cool features of Myth over the last 17years I've used it -- BUT....

here we go...

So -- after reading the MythTV Wiki on user jobs and looking at some of the scripts people have written...

I thought I'd get some feedback as to any additional things I could do or make sure to avoid when setting up these user jobs.

Can auto-cut be trusted or should user review of commercial marks be a "must do"?

Can transcode always be trusted or, again, should review of a copy be done?

Also, any particular transcode settings that are best for HD vs SD (a lot of the classic movies are being shown in SD, but I also like keeping my episodes of NOVA and other neato PBS stuff in HD)

There's reading the Wiki -- and then there's "in practice" -- I'd like to hear some opinions.

Thanks a bunch,

 -Ben



I do exactly what you described you want to do.  You can't trust the commercial breaks completely but they are a big help.  I have learned to use mythfrontend to edit and check the commercials quickly and adjust them appropriately.

I use a script within mythbackend as a job to remove commercials
that I marked with a cutlist manually and compress the recording by
converting it from the original MPEG2 to m4v using handbrake. The
converted file is move to my NAS and the original is not modified. All this is
handled by sendTVtonas.sh within mythtv. The script has all the install
information in comments.
You get the script from the first post in the following topic in the mythtv
forum:
Script to export Mythtv recordings to a folder or NAS

https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1261

Jim A



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