I've just given Avidemux a go with todays Hi-5 episode. The morning kids programs are good for archiving as they have no intermediary ad breaks. Just start and end cruft.<div><br></div><div>1) Avidemux couldn't open HD mpeg-ts files direct from Myth. It just says "Could not open file".</div>
<div><br></div><div>2) Consequently, I exported a 30 minute HD recording with: HandbrakeCLI -Z PS3 -i [File from Myth].mpg -o [File for Avidemux].mp4</div><div> - Encoding took ~1 hour</div><div><br></div><div>3) Opened the mp4 file using the Avidemux GUI (Qt4 version for Mac) to set the start and end cutpoints, and saved to a new file using the copy option for video and audio codecs.</div>
<div> - Took about 10 minutes to learn the GUI and complete the edit and stream copy. Next time I figure it will take about 3 minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>The file plays back fine. So from a functionality perspective it works as required.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Avidemux scripting options look like a SEP. If I get around to it I might learn them, but the GUI is just so easy to use :)</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Steve V <<a href="mailto:olivuts@yahoo.com">olivuts@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> A possible approach?<br>
> ================<br>
><br>
> 1. Get your cut points right by commflag plus editing to get them<br>
> 100%. The cutpoints are in the database.<br>
><br>
> 2. Convert the cutpoints to the format used by avidemux, in fact they<br>
> may even be the same, "frames from start of file (I think) - this I<br>
> need to check.<br>
><br>
> 3. Use avidemux on the commandline to process the file, cutting out<br>
> the cutlist. avidemux is quite programmable using a javascript/ecma.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Scripting" target="_blank">http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Scripting</a><br>
><br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> Well at least I know to stop trying to transcode using myth on my HD<br>
> recordings.<br>
><br>
> Your ideas sound great, a winter weekends scripting for someone? I would be<br>
> happy to offer time for testing. My coding experience is currently nowhere<br>
> near what would be required for creating, maybe in a year or so.<br>
<br>
</div>Of course I haven't yet checked that avidemux does cope with these<br>
files, I was just basing my idea on the fact that it is scriptable!<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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