<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Ian Forde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ian@duckland.org">ian@duckland.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 18:14 -0500, Christopher Meredith wrote:<br>
> What does this script do? It losslessly cuts commercials from HD-PVR<br>
> recordings and gives them smart names.<br>
><br>
> So 1431_20090218195000.mpg<br>
><br>
> becomes<br>
><br>
> Lost.S03E03.Further Instructions.mkv<br>
><br>
> It runs as a user job and can put the transcoded files anywhere you want.<br>
><br>
> Project page here: <a href="http://monopedilos.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hdpvrcutter.pl" target="_blank">http://monopedilos.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=hdpvrcutter.pl</a><br>
><br>
> Special thanks to Robert McNamara. I welcome suggestions. As the page<br>
> explains, I'm hardly a perl programmer; this is largely a<br>
> copy-and-paste job. But it works. Please let me know your experiences<br>
> and if there are things I could do better.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Apparently, the ticket containing the avidemux cutlist patch -<br>
<a href="http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5809" target="_blank">http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5809</a> - is now closed as "wontfix".<br>
(Which, in all fairness, Robert has historically stated that he was<br>
going to eventually do.) There is a reference to "better, cleaner ways<br>
of handling this". Unless I missed something (which is quite possible)<br>
I'm not sure what any of them are...<br>
<br>
Anyone?</blockquote><div><br>I would also like to know this. In my experience, the avidemux hack only works reliably on 6-channel AC3 audio. It dies completely on AAC and the audio get cut at random points on 2-channel AC3. I've got a messy workaround that converts the audio to 6-channel AC3 first if it isn't already.<br>
<br>I've been working on a version of this script that uses mencoder but it is only reliable if you're re-encoding the video (which is obviously not lossless). Even so, the mencoder EDL method also doesn't like AAC audio so I have to end up converting it twice.<br>
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