[mythtv-users] Convert mythcommflag info into 'chapters' (was: Commerical skipping thru PS3)

[Nick Rout]

On Sep 28, 2012 8:48 AM, "Joel Means" <means.joel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I am not sure that you would need to transcode. Could be that you just
> > need to remux the file to mkv with mkvmerge and a chapter file. The
> > format of a simple chapter file is:
> >
> >            CHAPTER01=00:00:00.000
> >            CHAPTER01NAME=Intro
> >            CHAPTER02=00:02:30.000
> >            CHAPTER02NAME=Baby prepares to rock
> >            CHAPTER03=00:02:42.300
> >            CHAPTER03NAME=Baby rocks the house
> >
> > (sorry for the puerile example, it is from the mkvmerge man page!)
> >
> > The timing should be calculable from the frame number given in the
> > database table.
> >
>
> That's a good point.  The script I wrote could easily be modified to
> just roll up the original mpeg file or do a lossless transcode and
> then mux it into an mkv with the chapter file.  I may have to look
> into that sometime.

I assume that in the lossless transcode you get rid of the ads anyway? In
which case the OP's  problem is solved.
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