[mythtv-users] [OT] ProjectX user guide

[Milo]

On 11/22/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 November 2005 13:45, Milo wrote:
> > [ warning: newbie speak ]
> >
> > Is there a command line tool available for slicing and dicing MPEG2-TS
> > according to time without re-encoding?
> >
> > I tried using mpgtx at first but found it has timing issues with
> > MPEG2-TS.  Then i poked around and have only been able to come up with
> > projectx.  Is there not another command line tool for linux generally
> > available?  ... is everyone just waiting for mpgtx next release or
> > something else?
> >
> > Thanks for your input!
> >
> > --
> > Milan Andric
> > using hauppauge 250
> >
> > On 11/22/05, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/22/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 22 November 2005 09:35, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> > > > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:36:48PM -0500, Steve Adeff wrote:
> > > > > > Once you have these set the next area of concern is the video
> > > > > > display area. Underneath are some arrows (I don't have the program
> > > > > > in front of me now, so I'm going by memory). The inner two are for
> > > > > > moving one GOP frame at a time (the smallest jump you can make in
> > > > > > an mpeg without transcoding), then next one is for a slightly
> > > > > > larger jump, and then again a slighter larger jump, the furthest
> > > > > > out ones are for jumping between cutpoint points.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'll just add that there are keyboard shortcuts for moving round the
> > > > > edit window.  The cut window uses ->, SHIFT ->, CTRL -> and ALT ->
> > > > > for skipping 1 frame, few seconds, ~ 15s, ~1 m - exactly what you
> > > > > need for cutting commercials! (I had to read the source code to
> > > > > discover this though ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > > p, n jump previous and next cutpoint
> > > > >
> > > > > Home, End go to start end of video.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Cutpoints. Next to the arrows for jumping around in videos are a +
> > > > > > and - for adding and removing cutpoints. Adding two cutpoints will
> > > > > > turn the area in between green, any green area area will be
> > > > > > processed and output. Multiple Green areas will be output in one
> > > > > > final output file. The right side along the video has two tabs, one
> > > > > > shows the cutpoint images and IIRC the other tab shows a list of
> > > > > > the cutpoints. Here you can also save your cutpoints to a file for
> > > > > > later use (or like if you realize you screwed up, instead of
> > > > > > redoing all the cutpoints you can load the file and easily make
> > > > > > changes).
> > > > >
> > > > > My edit sessions go like this (all done with the keyboard), to add
> > > > > one cut point.
> > > > >
> > > > > ALT ->, ALT ->, ALT ->, ..., CTRL <-, CTRL <-, CTRL <-, ..., SHIFT
> > > > > ->, SHIFT ->, SHIFT ->, ..., <-, <-, <- , ..., <-, ->, a
> > > >
> > > > awesome! I was wondering if there were shortcut keys for that! I assume
> > > > "a" adds a cutpoint?
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to have myth rescan a file after commercial cutting?
> > > > If I could rename the original, cut commercials, save the output file
> > > > as the original name and have Myth rescan the new mpeg I'd be a happy
> > > > camper.
> > >
> > > you could dump the new output in the /myth/video directory and then in
> > > mythfrontend utilities go into your video manager and it should be
> > > rescanned.
>
> project X is PERFECT for what your looking for. It is *meticulous* in keeping
> video and audio output time synced. As well it runs wonderfuly from CLI (at
> least it does on my system).
>
> Steve
>

I didn't know that you could run it and give it options to execute on
command line.  I don't think there's anyway around the GUI?

(apologies about top posting.)

Milan