[mythtv-users] MythTranscode/Commercial Cutlist/Manual Cutlist/etc

[Chris Petersen]

> Okay, I'm a little confused and my wanderings through the archives are 
> not helping too much.  Does MythTranscode honour cutlist or do I have to 
> use MythMkMovie for that?

manually invoking mythtranscode (pressing X while watching the
recording) will process the cutlist without reencoding the show (please
correct me if I'm wrong about this - does it only not reencode if the
transcode and recording profiles are the same?).  Either way, it
processes the cutlist.

>   Also someone mentioned in one of their 
> e-mails one could copy the auto-commercial skip list by using the 
> playback option and pressing 'Z'.  Then one could review to see if the 
> cutlist is accurate ... but how does one do that?

while in edit mode (press M while watching), you can press Z and if the
commercials have been flagged (either manually by running mythcommflag,
or if autoflag is enabled in the setup), they will be imported as a
cutlist, which you will be able to see in the editor.  I've found that
this isn't entirely accurate, and I have to move the cut points a few
frames forward/back, but doing this it takes me about 30 seconds to
create a cutlist for a show (as long as that "rebuffering" error doesn't
creep up and cause myth to hang).

> c) envoke something like mencoder to convert the de-commercialized 
> mpeg-2 file to XviD/lamemp3 avi at a low priority level so it doesn't 
> mess up  recordings or live-tv viewing.

grab nuvexport from http://forevermore.net/myth/ because as far as I
know, mythmkmovie hasn't been updated to take advantage of the new
fifodir settings in mythtranscode, and mplayer/mencoder haven't been
updated to handle myth's alterations to the nuv file format.

-Chris