Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-16 Thread Niels Dybdahl
Being totally ignorant, and one who badly wants this feature forMPEG4->MPEG4, I'll ask some simple questions (just in case I try to learn enough about myth and MPEG4 to make some haphazardattempt to work on the MPEG4 case):1) Are there any plans for this feature for MPEG4->MPEG4? MPEG4->MPEG4 cutti

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-16 Thread Gavin Haslett
I think the consensus is that there is no consensus :) It basically comes down to -> Use what works best for you. Take your pick. Ask 10 different people around here and you'll get 12 different answers. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-15 Thread Cymen Vig
On 1/13/06, Steve Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, what does the seektable do? I've played around some, trying to > figure out my transcoding problems. It only applies to MPEG2 -- I think MPEG-4 incorporates that functionality into the file. I can't answer what exactly it is besides th

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/15/06, Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do this all from a single script without actually looking/editing > > the commercial points. I trust mythcommflag is doing very good job and > > I do detect almost all the commercials. Only one time, it deleted > > everything of the "Lost"

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-15 Thread Phill Edwards
> I do this all from a single script without actually looking/editing > the commercial points. I trust mythcommflag is doing very good job and > I do detect almost all the commercials. Only one time, it deleted > everything of the "Lost" episode after the first commercial. You wouldn't want to do

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-14 Thread Nathan Allen Stratton
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Robin Gilks wrote: > Silly question, but what is your source of mpeg4 stuff? I've not seen any > capture cards that output anything other that mpeg2. I use 3 Plextor 402Us it offers hardware mpeg4 directly. -nathan ___ mythtv-users

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Mudit Wahal
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=CrudeMPEG2cutForDVB Here is the link to the application and a howto also. On 1/13/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:37:09PM -0800, Mudit Wahal wrote: > > There is a commercial_cut program available which can read the

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Matt Price
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 05:37:09PM -0800, Mudit Wahal wrote: > There is a commercial_cut program available which can read the cutlist > from the myth database and do a good job for removing the commercials. > > I use that regulary to remove commercials from my HD programs. Its a 3 > step process.

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Steve Briggs
Michael T. Dean wrote: > But nothing is stopping you from cutting manually (with something like > avidemux2) and replacing the recording. Just make sure that once you > replace the file, you rebuild the seektable with: > > mythcommflag --rebuild -f Good idea; I'll have to try that. BTW, what

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Mudit Wahal
There is a commercial_cut program available which can read the cutlist from the myth database and do a good job for removing the commercials. I use that regulary to remove commercials from my HD programs. Its a 3 step process. Run mythcommflag to find the detect commercials. Then run mythcommflag

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Robin Gilks wrote: >> "Cory Papenfuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> It's currently a very active bit of development... lossless MPEG2 >>> cutting. It's not in the releases, and the development has bugs that >>> are >>> being squashed. Not ready for prime time yet as I understand it.

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Robin Gilks
> "Cory Papenfuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> It's currently a very active bit of development... lossless MPEG2 >> cutting. It's not in the releases, and the development has bugs that >> are >> being squashed. Not ready for prime time yet as I understand it. >> >> -Cory > > Being totally

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Steve Briggs
"Cory Papenfuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It's currently a very active bit of development... lossless MPEG2 > cutting. It's not in the releases, and the development has bugs that are > being squashed. Not ready for prime time yet as I understand it. > > -Cory Being totally ignorant,

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Michael T. Dean
Cory Papenfuss wrote: >>I need to save some space on my l'ill old drive but I am running a >>pretty slow system (PIII-450, with a PVR350 doing all the heavy >>lifting). can't play dvd's on this system, for instance. So I don't >>think that transcoding will work well with this CPU. Is it possibl

Re: [mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Cory Papenfuss
> I need to save some space on my l'ill old drive but I am running a > pretty slow system (PIII-450, with a PVR350 doing all the heavy > lifting). can't play dvd's on this system, for instance. So I don't > think that transcoding will work well with this CPU. Is it possible > instead just to cut

[mythtv-users] cut commercials only, no transcoding

2006-01-13 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I need to save some space on my l'ill old drive but I am running a pretty slow system (PIII-450, with a PVR350 doing all the heavy lifting). can't play dvd's on this system, for instance. So I don't think that transcoding will work well with this CPU. Is it possible instead just to cut come