[mythtv-users] Save recording on DVD?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Aug 10 22:32:29 UTC 2008


Mark Knecht wrote:

>    I guess I'll need to learn about hand editing commercial breaks? Is
> this difficult or error prone?

I think you want to learn about "editing" in general, not specifically
just commercial breaks.

There are a lot of video editing programs available for Linux, from
gopchop to Cinelerra, or from very basic to capable of creating a
feature film.

Obviously you will want to start with the more basic stuff, perhaps
avidemux, which can also do some housekeeping stuff as well as edit.

After the commercials have been flagged they then have to be actually
removed from the file (edited out). The internal myth player knows how
to skip the flagged commercials but nothing else in the world of players
does. Normally you convert the commercial marks to cutpoints, then
trandcode and remove them, then create your DVD.

If you trust your commercial flagging it can be as easy as hitting a few
keys and letting Myth convert the flags to cutpoints (an EDL in the
vernacular, Edit Decision List). It rarely works out to be that easy though.

beww


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