[mythtv-users] dvd respecting cutlist

[Jason Werpy]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0500, Rob Nichols <rob at robnet.com> wrote:
> Is anyone interested in this?  Is there an easier way?
> 
> As part of a project to help a friend move from windows to linux, I've put
> together a program to make a dvd from myth shows that respects the cutlist.
> Nothing fancy.  I use avidemux2, mplex, and dvdauthor to do all the real work.
> It doesn't reencode anything, so it's fairly fast, but does end up making
> three copies of the show (it takes 20 minutes to prepare two one hour shows on
> a P4-2.4GHz with a decent SATA drive).
> 
> It's a curses app (i.e. text based) that lets you choose shows from a list.
> Each show is a title on the dvd, with a simple dvd menu to pick the title.
> Each segment of the show is a chapter.  I've tried the resulting DVDs in
> several players, and so far those that are new enough to read DVD+RWs can
> play them fine.
> 
> The avidemux2 stuff is based on a mythtv-users email several months ago from
> Paul De Bruin that gave an example of using it in batch to extract a segment
> to files that mplex could use.  Thanks, as before that I had no idea avidemux2
> had a batch mode, and certainly would not have tried this.
> 
> The menu stuff was inspired by Wolfgang Wershofen (itconsult at wershofen.de).
> Inspired means I didn't cut-and-paste his code, but mine looks a whole lot
> like his code!  (His was GPL.)
> 
> If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to slap a GPL on this and send it to
> people.  (feedback and suggestions appreciated)  If people are interested I
> should spend a few days on cleanup.  Is there some place little tools like
> this normally get posted?
> 
> Rob
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I would be interested in this.  I'm currently doing commercial cutting
by hand.  Automation would be great.