namenNewUser, feel free to post diffs here, or on the Wiki page. I will have a look at making a 0.7 with your changes.

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for hdtv programs, the end time is not necessarily correct.

running version 0.5


I recorded Pearl Harbor, 7pm to 11pm. After running commercial cut, the end time is pointing to 1:19am.

The movie is recorded in 720p HD.

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Hey guys, I got 3 questions.

First. Before I learned about commercial_cut I just copied recordings from the tv folder and then deleted them from mythtv to save space, Could I like put them back in mythtv somehow and then cut out parts of them and recopy them back out?

Second. Is there a program that I can use in linux or windows to edit hdtv nuv files so it would be easier than using the remote?

Third. Is it possible to demux a hdtv nuv file and replace the ac3 sound with that of a dvd for hdtv movies and then remux as a nuv or mpeg2, anything with mpeg2?

Thanks a lot guys!

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Not easily. Putting mpeg2 recordings back into myth doesnt work real well at the moment because the seek table does not get rebuilt correctly (this is the table that commercial_cut uses to do the cutting


Not sure. I know liv2cod has recently been lamenting the dirth of HD tools in linux. This was discussed recently in a thread about nuv2disc.

See answer 2.

I'm trying to get Commercial Cut 0.6 to work correctly with KnoppMyth R5A16. I have verified that the commercial flags are set correct by viewing them in edit mode but when I press X to transcode (run commercial cut) it's not cutting the commericals. It is however cutting out sections of the recorded program instead of the commercials. Any ideas???
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Sounds like the seek table in the database does not correspond correctly with the recording. I have no idea what would cause this.

It would seem that if the seek table did not correspond correctly with the recording that when I viewed the recorded program in edit mode the cut marks would be in the wrong locations. This is not the case. I have tried this a few times with different recorded programs. Also, commercial auto skip works perfectly.

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Are you in PAL or NTSC land? The "experimental PVR mode" of commercial cut makes an assumption about how many frames correspond to an index in the recordedmarkup table. Perhaps this is different for PAL and NTSC.

Put them in /myth/tv, run myth.rebuilddatabase.pl

Then 'mythcommflag --rebuild' on each file to let you edit them.

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I didnt think the --rebuild thing worked correctly for mpeg2 files. Have you used it nigel? Has it been fixed recently?

I'm in the US which is NTSC land. Looking at the -vvv results it looks like your correct. The correct frames are being skipped so the byte offset calculation must be wrong. I'll look into it further later tonight. Thanks for all your help.

I changed the multiplier from 12 to 15 and that did the trick. I should have read all the messages in the thread earlier. Thanks for the great code.

It would be good if this could be detected somehow by commercial cut. Is there anything in the recordedmarkup table that suggests each index represents 15 frames instead of 12? I assume this is to do with the NTSC frame rate being 30 and the PAL framerate being 25.

Not having a PVR card myself, I cannot investigate.

Greg, I could not fine anything that even hints at such. I would be happy to do further testing and gather anything that you think would be useful. If such can not be detected at run time perhaps a compile option can be added.

Thats a good idea. and with Nigels changes that read options from ~mythtv/.commercial_cut you could put the option in there.