[mythtv-users] Editing out commercials

James L. Paul james at mauibay.net
Fri Oct 24 16:27:38 EDT 2003


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Robert Kulagowski wrote:
| Sounds like you may be going about it the hard way.  What I do is let
| myth record the program and mark the commercials.  I then go back into
| the program and hit "E" to get into edit mode.  I import the commercials
| (press "Z") then use page up and page down to jump to the cut points and
| make sure that the commercial in and out points are set.
|
| Hit "E" to exit the edit mode, then ESC to exit the program.  Crank up
| mkmovie (http://www.icelus.org/), assign a filename and that's it -
| MPEG-2 file with commercials cut out.

mkmovie can output MPEG2? How can I do this? I don't even see any way to
choose MPEG2, not to mention prevent it from re-encoding!

When I do as you suggest, mkmovie re-encodes my MPEG2 stream to an MPEG4
~ AVI with MP3 audio. That's totally useless for CVD/DVD. I already have
a DVD-compliant MPEG2 stream in the .nuv file straight out of my
PVR-250, all I want to do is cut the commercials out!

What point am I missing here? I have the cutlist and the MPEG2 file.
mkmovie is a great tool for those who want to transcode to divx or
whatever it does. Can it also be used to simply cut the already-encoded
MPEG2 file without re-encoding? How? I must be missing something obvious
here!

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