Lan Barnes wrote: > For a lot of reasons, I'm going to be switching Myth boxes. I've decided > that my recordings really aren't worth the trouble of dragging over (lots > of Sponge Bob and Simpsons -- brilliant in their way, but not "Citizen > Kane"). So I plan to just start fresh. > > But, there is some stuff (Frontline and "Battlestar Galactica") where I > might want to cut the commercials and burn CD/DVDs. > > So my question is, is there a good video editor for Linux (OSS) outside of > Myth? Or should I just stick with Myth on another monitor?
I have found that MythTV actually has the best tools for doing the editing of the MPEG2 streams recorded from the PVR-150 card. You can use a remote frontend to do the editing, which is actually just marking the cut points in the database. Then use mythtranscode to create a new edited file. I have found that it takes a few tweaks of the cut points to get rid of all the commercials because sometimes there is some frame blending at the transitions done by the broadcasters to try and fool you. The nice thing about mythtranscode is that it will work on cutpoints that are not GOP (Group Of Pictures) boundary's which gets rid of some of the more annoying commercials without losing lead-ins to the show. I have used a program called gopchop <http://gopchop.sourceforge.net/> to edit MPEG2 files and it works fairly well. Unfortunately, it will only do cuts at full frames and can't construct partial frames. If you can live with some flicker at the transition points or the occasional frame of a commercial intruding into your recording this is a viable alternative. Although I'm not sure why you can't just migrate all your old recordings to the new box. You can backup the database, copy all the recording over to the machine and then restore the database there to get everything back. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
