[mythtvnz] Advice for encoding ...

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Steve V <olivuts at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> A possible approach?
> ================
>
> 1. Get your cut points right by commflag plus editing to get them
> 100%. The cutpoints are in the database.
>
> 2. Convert the cutpoints to the format used by avidemux, in fact they
> may even be the same, "frames from start of file (I think) - this I
> need to check.
>
> 3. Use avidemux on the commandline to process the file, cutting out
> the cutlist. avidemux is quite programmable using a javascript/ecma.
>
> http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/index.php?title=Scripting
>

> Well at least I know to stop trying to transcode using myth on my HD
> recordings.
>
> Your ideas sound great, a winter weekends scripting for someone? I would be
> happy to offer time for testing. My coding experience is currently nowhere
> near what would be required for creating, maybe in a year or so.

Of course I haven't yet checked that avidemux does cope with these
files, I was just basing my idea on the fact that it is scriptable!