[mythtv-users] Re: Does transcoding remove commercials?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Don Brett wrote:

>Oh..., Ok, then I'll stop trying to get it to work!  Does that explain
>the infinitely large files that get created when I tried it?  It just
>keeps going until I kill it manually.
>
>I have to say though, I'm astounded.  Of all the really cool things the
>MythTv does, I would have thought that would have been one of the first
>features to do.  Was the cutlist meant only for skipping commercials
>during playback?
>
>Thanks for the heads-up,
>Don
>
>PS - This line from the documentation that faked-me-out:
>
>FAQ section
>"The transcoder can be used in two ways:
>
>- Automatically re-encode every file once it has completed recording
>- After marking commercials, the transcoder can be run manually to
>delete the commercials from the file (thus further saving space) "
>  
>
The documentation is valid for software encoder cards encoding to MPEG-4 
or RTJPEG but does not apply for MPEG-2 -> MPEG-2 transcoding which is 
not supported to my knowledge.

Kevin