On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 05:42:02PM +0200, lee wrote: > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:21:40AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 04:34:43PM +0200, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > what do you use to automatically remove commercials from movies > > > recorded with a TV card? I know mythtv can do it, but I don't like > > > mythtv. > > > > > Personally, I'd just use MythTV. But if you want to do it yourself, > > avidemux has a "next black frame" button. I know that's one of the > > methods MythTV uses to detect commercials. This might get you started. > > The problem with avidemux is that it is unable to keep the sound > synchronized with the movie. So I'm using dvbcut which doesn't have > this problem. But it's tedious to cut out all the commercials manually > ... > Yeah, I've had that trouble before.
MythTV runs a program called "mythcommflag". Maybe you could look up the source or just get it to run standalone, without installing MythTV. > > And if avidemux has this feature, mplayer/mencoder probably has it too. > > Hm, any idea how to make use of that? I couldn't find anything to that > in the manpage. It has even been impossible to create a channels.conf > for mplayer ... > This was just a guess, because I know avidemux is based on a lot of mencoder code. I just tried "mplayer -vf blackframe myfile" and it looks like it might have output a list of frames that are black. I'm not 100% sure what I'm looking at here, to be honest. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100704170343.ga27...@aurora.owens.net