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CvB at kruemel

Nov 24, 2009, 6:59 AM

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commflagging & deleting commercials from mpg

Not sure if this is the 100th post on this. I've googled quite a while,
but don't think I can figure out on my own how to get this to work.

What I'd like to do: Delete commercials from the recorded mpgs, rather
automatically.

What I've tried: Set commflag & transcode jobs. Both ran through, but
afterwards, the commercials were still in the mpg.

I also tried using a script which I found on the mythtv.org website
(http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Script_-_RemoveCommercials). There seem to
have been more, but further links I found through Google only point to
empty pages on mythtv.org - so I figure that information is now obsolete.

This script is running fine, and afterwards the mpg is smaller (lossless
mpg2 transcoding, I suppose), but the commercials are still in. It seems
that the cut points for the commercials are not honored...?

I'm using mythcommflag version 0.22.20091023-1 (from the 0.22 source
package available from mythtv.org) and mythtranscode from the same
package.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

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james.orr7 at gmail

Nov 24, 2009, 7:14 AM

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Re: commflagging & deleting commercials from mpg [In reply to]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Christian <CvB [at] kruemel> wrote:

> Not sure if this is the 100th post on this. I've googled quite a while,
> but don't think I can figure out on my own how to get this to work.
>
> What I'd like to do: Delete commercials from the recorded mpgs, rather
> automatically.
>
> What I've tried: Set commflag & transcode jobs. Both ran through, but
> afterwards, the commercials were still in the mpg.
>
> I also tried using a script which I found on the mythtv.org website
> (http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Script_-_RemoveCommercials). There seem to
> have been more, but further links I found through Google only point to
> empty pages on mythtv.org - so I figure that information is now obsolete.
>
> This script is running fine, and afterwards the mpg is smaller (lossless
> mpg2 transcoding, I suppose), but the commercials are still in. It seems
> that the cut points for the commercials are not honored...?
>
> I'm using mythcommflag version 0.22.20091023-1 (from the 0.22 source
> package available from mythtv.org) and mythtranscode from the same
> package.
>
> Am I missing something?
>

commflagging isn't 100%, it might be close but it will make mistakes. To
remove commercials you first have to edit the recording, from there you can
load the cutlist with your skip up button, check it for errors and make any
needed adjustments then when you transcode the commercials will be gone.


drescherjm at gmail

Nov 24, 2009, 7:25 AM

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Re: commflagging & deleting commercials from mpg [In reply to]

>> Am I missing something?
>
> commflagging isn't 100%, it might be close but it will make mistakes.

I would not do this automatically or you are guaranteed to have it
delete 30 minutes from the SOs favorite show at least 1 time a
month...

If you really want this to be automatic the big part is copying the
skiplist to the cutlist.

John
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cpinkham at bc2va

Nov 24, 2009, 9:35 AM

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Re: commflagging & deleting commercials from mpg [In reply to]

* On Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 10:25:58AM -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> If you really want this to be automatic the big part is copying the
> skiplist to the cutlist.

That's easy if someone trusts the commercial flagging good enough to
blindly cut video based on it (which I don't recommend):

Just run the following as a user job:

mythcommflag --gencutlist --chanid %CHANID% --starttime %STARTTIME%

--
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jarpublic at gmail

Nov 24, 2009, 10:01 AM

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Re: commflagging & deleting commercials from mpg [In reply to]

> That's easy if someone trusts the commercial flagging good enough to
> blindly cut video based on it (which I don't recommend):

Chris Pinkham wrote most of the commercial skip code so I would take
his recommendations on this matter with more weight than other
people's. Thanks for the work, Chris!
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johnnyjboss at gmail

Nov 24, 2009, 10:36 AM

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Re: commflagging & deleting commercials from mpg [In reply to]

BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE for Chris.

Without this feature I'd have never fallen in love with MythTv

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Johnny <jarpublic [at] gmail> wrote:
>> That's easy if someone trusts the commercial flagging good enough to
>> blindly cut video based on it (which I don't recommend):
>
> Chris Pinkham wrote most of the commercial skip code so I would take
> his recommendations on this matter with more weight than other
> people's. Thanks for the work, Chris!
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