[mythtv-users] Auto transcode and commercial cutting not happening

[Kevin Kuphal]

Craig Hagerman wrote:

>HI,
>
>I am not sure if I have overlooked something or it is just ignorance,
>but mythtv doesn't seem to be either flagging commercials or doing
>automatic transcoding.
>
>On the mythfrontend settings I have the appropriate checkboxes checked
>to allow for automatic transcoding and commercial detection. On
>mythweb when I set it to record a program the checkboxes for
>"Auto-flag commercials" is checked. However, the shows are not
>transcoded (they are left in .nuv format), and the commercials are
>still present. But then it HAS to be transcoded in order for
>commercials to be cut, right? But Mythweb also has "has cutlist: no"
>... and I thought this SHOULD be "yes" since it is set to auto-flag
>commercials. Have I misunderstood this?
>
>Can anyone show me where I might have gone wrong here?
>  
>
I believe Adam accurately answered your question about the NUV.  As for 
the commerical flagging, you notice that it is "flagging", not "cutting" 
that is done.  If you are looking for how to automatically convert your 
commercial flags into a cutlist used by transcoding, search the list 
archives for a thread titled "Automatically load commercial skip list 
into cutlist" and you'll see that Chris Pinkham gave an excellent 
example of how to do this just 5 days ago.

Kevin