Lan Barnes wrote:
Is there a tool that allows you to enter "start-stop" marks in a file
before transcoding it for archiving?
You really need to read the docs one of these days.
You'll want to use a keyboard for this, and it's best done on a monitor,
not a TV screen. Start playing the recording in mythfrontend. Press "E"
for Edit. The screen will freeze and show a horizontal bar. Now press
"Z", which will load all the commercial breaks as cut points. Use
PageUP/PageDown to move to the different cut points. Use the left/right
arrow keys to move forward/back along the time line. Use up/down arrow
to change the default increment of the right/left arrow movement.
Pressing the Enter key will activate a menu giving you choices to add a
cutpoint, delete a cutpoint, reverse a cutpoint's direction or to move a
cutpoint to the current location if an existing one is close enough. Hit
Escape a couple times when you are finished editing.
You should try to have at least two frames of blank between the spaces
you want to remove and the stuff you are saving to make sure the stuff
you don't want gets left out.
To transcode the stuff, I do the following on the backend:
$ mythtranscode --mpeg2 --honorcutlist --showprogress \
-c 1057 -s "2007-04-08 20:58" -o SomeScFiShow.mpg
This will create an edited version of whatever show was on card 1,
channel 57, with recording starting at 2007-04-08 20:58. The output file
name follows the -o (that's the letter Oh, lower case). This will create
an MPEG2 recording, cut out all the stuff you edited and recode the time
sequence inside the file.
I usually view the file with mplayer and go to all my cut points to view
the transitions to make sure I did the editing right. Sometimes it
takes a few tries because the transcoder has problems with the cut
point. Adjusting the cut point by a few frames will fix the problem.
Once you have the recording transcoded, you can either burn the file to
CDROM/DVD and use a computer to view it, or you can use something
like dvdstyler to create a DVD that's playable in a DVD player.
Gus
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