> After spending a few hours digging thru the archives on this topic, I > still didn't find any discussion that had concise steps to cutting > commercials and burning dvd.
I would suggest that you get the latest mythtvburn CVS code - it has recently introduced cutlist support code in the web interface and the backend script calls avidemux to do the cutting - I haven't burned a CD using the cutlists successfully yet, but I presume I'm close and I'm tracking CVS code changes. http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2132 http://mythburn.sf.net/ Since I haven't seen any posts recently about MythTVBurn, I'll provide a summary of my experience: I started running MythTVBurn on FC1/mythtv 0.16 - it took some hacking of the scripts to adjust file locations and I needed to remove some flags from transcode to get the animated video clips to be not "blue" and upside down. I had problems with replex so I switched back to mplex. In the process of getting things working, I upgraded to the latest ImageMagick, and rebuilt ffmpeg, avifile, avidemux, and transcode from CVS enabling all options and protocols. This might not be necessary now with latest packages on FC3. After some tinkering, I was able to burn DVDs via the web interface just fine. It (currently) only works with MPEG2 recordings. If your recordings are transcoded or not MPEG2, you can't burn them directly to DVD. My default recording settings only allowed me to fit 1 /12 hours onto a DVD, so I adjusted my recording bitrate settings down. I can now fit 2 hours onto a dvd. Burning a dvd takes about 30 seconds from the web, and about 20 minutes to create the dvd. When I upgraded to MythTV 0.17 - it took some hacking of mythweb to deal with the new internationalization to get mythtvburn working again. The CVS code deals with most of that now. I recently upgraded ImageMagick to the latest version and had to upgrade dvdauthor to the latest alpha release to fix a problem that the new ImageMagick created with menu icons. DVDs created with mythtvburn have mp2 sound, and I've just recently come to realize that the US DVD standard only supports ac3 sound. Most cheap DVD players will play the mp2 sound dvds just fine, but some older and more expensive players won't. -Ross
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