[mythtv-users] Auto transcode after commercial flagging

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Fri Jan 12 21:33:35 UTC 2007


On Jan 12, 2007, at 12:11 PM, steve wrote:

> So if I set MythTV to mark commercials while it’s recording, then  
> to automatically transcode after recording is complete, should it  
> transcode and cut commercials (I can’t see any reason why not), or  
> can this only happen with manual action as implied in the manual?
Notice you used two separate terms. "mark commercials" and "cut  
commercials" which indeed are two very different things.

mythcommflag does not add cutlists by default. It adds commercial  
flags. The difference is that when transcoding, it ignores commercial  
flagging but removes video between points in the cutlist. commflags  
are detected by the player and handled when playing back according to  
the setting (do nothing, notify there is a commercial flag, auto skip  
to the end of the commflag). This is because commercial flagging is  
not 100% accurate and many people would be upset to lose parts of  
their recordings if they don't view the video and manually decide to  
actually cut video based on what mythcommflag thought were commercials.

You can over-ride the mythcommflag command to add --gencutlist which  
would then create a cutlist instead of commercial flags - but don't  
complain when you lose parts of your program or if it missed the  
first commercial break, cuts our your program and leaves all the  
commercials (I haven't seen this, but I suppose it's possible in  
theory despite safeguards that it will never make a commercial flag  
more than x minutes or whatever). :)

People who want to automatically cut commercials usually set up a  
separate user job for programs where they feel confident they can  
trust mythcommflag and remove the video automatically. They would set  
this particular program to not run commflag after recording, then  
execute a user job set up exactly like commflag except with -- 
gencutlist in the command, then run transcode.
>  One other question is how I can tell whether a particular show has  
> been transcoded already or not. There doesn’t seem to be an icon to  
> indicate this on the screen that lists the recorded shows.  So if a  
> commercials aren’t gone on a given show I can’t tell if it’s  
> because transcoding isn’t happening (or hasn’t happened yet) or  
> because it transcoded but didn’t cut the commercials.
There is an icon to tell if the program has been flagged for  
commercials which should help in your determination. I usually look  
at the file size to determine if it's been transcoded or not. Some of  
the newer themes coming out as displaying the filesize right in the  
Watch Recordings screen which is convenient for this.

-Brad

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