[mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

[Mudit Wahal]

There is a commercial_cut program available which can read the cutlist
from the myth database and do a good job for removing the commercials.

I use that regulary to remove commercials from my HD programs. Its a 3
step process.
Run mythcommflag to find the detect commercials. Then run mythcommflag
-gencutlist to load the cutlist. And then, run commercial_cut to
remove the commercial.

I do this all from a single script without actually looking/editing
the commercial points. I trust mythcommflag is doing very good job and
I do detect almost all the commercials. Only one time, it deleted
everything of the "Lost" episode after the first commercial.

On 1/13/06, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> thanks,
>
> matt
>
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> Matt Price          matt.price at utoronto.ca
> History Department, University of Toronto
> (416) 978-2094
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