Gopdit: http://home.t-online.de/home/rhtm.e/gopdit/
I've seen this program mentioned once here, but think maybe it deserves highlighting, as it seems to answer a frequent question: how to quickly cut out commercials from an MPEG-2 stream without re-encoding the whole thing or losing audio/visual sync (as happens with avidemux). Gopdit does this by cutting at GOP boundaries, and doing no re-encoding. The author uses it specifically for streams from ATI and Hauppauge encoders. I tested it with something I recorded using "cat /dev/video0 > file.mpg" using my PVR-350, and the trimmed file had no a/v sync problems. I installed the pre-compiled rpm (designed for Suse 9.2) on my Debian system and it worked fine. The GUI is easy to use since it has just one main task. It is lightweight, running fine over an X session forwarded over 802.11g. The 0.2.3-pre experimental version can be run non-interactively (no GUI) and take the cutlist from a file. So this could be used to automatically cut commercials if we can figure out how to translate myth's cutlist info into one of the formats that gopdit understands. I've attached the gopdit edit list format info below; can someone tell me how the myth cut list is stored? The author of gopdit expressed willingness to have gopdit support other edit list formats, but it might be simpler to get myth to generate one of the formats below. Dan Copied from editlist.html: RTV Edit Lists The first character is the entry type: * F - file name of the source mpg (from an RTV set, .mpg/.evt/.ndx) * A - add point time (punch in) * D - delete point time (punch out) * E - end editing Time point is of the form MMM:SS.msc (M minutes, S seconds, msc millisecons) like in the following example: FMaking the Video - Lindsay Lohan.mpg D007:32.122 A008:02.396 A008:10.088 A008:40.333 A009:10.398 A009:40.493 A011:40.518 A012:10.571 D014:25.000 E RAW Edit Lists This is a very simple propriety format, the file contains simply pairs of byte offsets. Example: 80158720 240048128 400070656 719888384 799967232 1119780864 1439633408 2159566848
_______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users