[mythtv-users] Using Autotranscode to remove commercials

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 02:56:37 UTC 2011


On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Kris B. <krisbee at krisbee.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, October 09, 2011 9:14 PM, "Christian Arnaut" <n8tgc at msn.com>
> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to have the “autotranscode” feature remove commercials during
> a lossless transcode? I already have four user-jobs defined, so I was hoping
> to have the autotranscode function accomplish this. However,  where have
> “lossless transcodes” enabled under the frontend config, I see no option to
> include the –honorcutlist switch. When I run jobs now, my MPEG2 files are
> transcoded to MPEG and the commercials are still  there. I see files go from
> 5.7 GB to 5.6 GB. Not exactly the results I am looking for…
>
>
>
> So, is it possible on the backend configuration to define the transcode
> command as “mythtranscode –honorcutlist” instead of the default of
> “mythtranscode”? I get the feeling I am real close and that somewhere the
> –honorcutlist switch needs to be defined. Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
>
> What I did was just made a user defined job - that is what they are there
> for:

perhaps you missed the bit in the first post where he said "I already
have four user-jobs defined, so I was hoping to have the autotranscode
function accomplish this."

I assume that you can only have 4 user defined jobs, that seems to be
all I can ever see in the gui.


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