[mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Jan 13 21:32:48 UTC 2006
Cory Papenfuss wrote:
>>I need to save some space on my l'ill old drive but I am running a
>>pretty slow system (PIII-450, with a PVR350 doing all the heavy
>>lifting). can't play dvd's on this system, for instance. So I don't
>>think that transcoding will work well with this CPU. Is it possible
>>instead just to cut comercials automatically? that would at least
>>save me some space on the (relatively few) recordings we make on
>>commercial TV.
>>
>It's currently a very active bit of development... lossless MPEG2
>cutting. It's not in the releases, and the development has bugs that are
>being squashed. Not ready for prime time yet as I understand it.
>
>
But nothing is stopping you from cutting manually (with something like
avidemux2) and replacing the recording. Just make sure that once you
replace the file, you rebuild the seektable with:
mythcommflag --rebuild -f <filename>
Oh, and test early (before replacing) because of the possibility of A/V
sync problems...
Mike
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