[mythtv-users] Mythvidexport options - Commercial detection and cutlist?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 3/14/2012 12:42, Christian Arnaut wrote:
>
> I am curious, however, in the command line options, specifically 
> –cutlist and –skiplist. Can these either, or both of these options 
> provide a completed file with the commercial breaks removed from the 
> video? They are defined as follows (--skiplist = copy commercial 
> detection from recording) (--cutlist = copy manual commercial cutlist 
> from recording).
>

As the help string describes, they copy those lists, not apply them to 
the video. They copy the relevant data from recordedseek and 
recordedmarkup into filemarkup, so that playback behavior when using the 
Internal player is maintained. Cuts are automatically skipped, while 
skips follow whatever behavior you selected in your frontend options 
(auto, warn, or ignore).

> Unless I am missing something what else would these options be used for?
>

The intent is that you do all your desired transcoding before exporting 
to MythVideo, as MythVideo has no ties into the jobqueue to do so 
afterwards. These options were added for HDPVR and some DVB-T users, who 
receive H264, and thus cannot use the lossless transcoder to remove 
commercials.