On Sun, April 8, 2007 7:33 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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.
Not fair. I did an extensive search of the on-line docs and the "Hacking MythTV" book. If it's in there, it's not under any section on: - DVDs - transcoding - commercial marking There are no index or contents sections for - editing - anything else I could think of. Finally, any time you feel the docs will save you typing, feel free to send me a URL. > > 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. > > THAT's in the docs?!! Oh, well, it's in _my_ docs now. Thanks as always. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
