Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> For a lot of reasons, I'm going to be switching Myth boxes. I've decided >> that my recordings really aren't worth the trouble of dragging over (lots >> of Sponge Bob and Simpsons -- brilliant in their way, but not "Citizen >> Kane"). So I plan to just start fresh. >> >> But, there is some stuff (Frontline and "Battlestar Galactica") where I >> might want to cut the commercials and burn CD/DVDs. >> >> So my question is, is there a good video editor for Linux (OSS) outside of >> Myth? Or should I just stick with Myth on another monitor? > > I have found that MythTV actually has the best tools for doing the > editing of the MPEG2 streams recorded from the PVR-150 card. You can use > a remote frontend to do the editing, which is actually just marking the > cut points in the database. Then use mythtranscode to create a new > edited file. I have found that it takes a few tweaks of the cut points > to get rid of all the commercials because sometimes there is some frame > blending at the transitions done by the broadcasters to try and fool > you. The nice thing about mythtranscode is that it will work on > cutpoints that are not GOP (Group Of Pictures) boundary's which gets rid > of some of the more annoying commercials without losing lead-ins to the > show. > > I have used a program called gopchop <http://gopchop.sourceforge.net/> > to edit MPEG2 files and it works fairly well. Unfortunately, it will > only do cuts at full frames and can't construct partial frames. If you > can live with some flicker at the transition points or the occasional > frame of a commercial intruding into your recording this is a viable > alternative. > > Although I'm not sure why you can't just migrate all your old recordings > to the new box. You can backup the database, copy all the recording over > to the machine and then restore the database there to get everything back.
Here's another program to edit MPEG2 files: ProjectX <http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ProjectX> This a Java program. You can get the source from Source Forge or download a compiled version directly from the linked site. I haven't tested it yet to see how it works. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
