Backing up / Burning with commercials removed

khoman

2009-02-16, 03:18 #1

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Subject: Backing up / Burning with commercials removed

I am new, and did a preliminary search in the forums and FAQs but could not find this information.

My husband runs Myth as the backend on our server (huge linux guy), but because of some of the programs I must use for work, I have to run windows. I use Myth TV Player... which to date is fairly flawless on skipping commercials (in my opinion even better than when we use the backend to watch on TV).

What I'm asking is, is there any way to backup / burn with the commercials taken out, to save space on server, etc.?

Thanks for your time and consideration, please keep it up!!! You're doing a great job.

Kari

Lomion (Moderator) 2009-07-29, 16:30 #2

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What you are asking for is provided by the native transcode feature of Mythtv (look into the Mythtv wiki for details).
You can also control this via MythWeb.

So I see no real need for such functionality also because in my opinion Mythtv Player is supposed to be a Player first of all and not to be overloaded with "encoding functionality".

Any other opinions? Do we need this feature?

Mikkel (Administrator) 2009-07-30, 14:44 #3

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It is greate that you like the commercial skipping

Actually we simply skip the commercials when the MythTv tells us to so the functionality should be identical to the one on the normal frontend.
As Lomion say this is actually already supported in mythtv / mythweb. MythTvPlayer is only a player we are not able to edit the recordings.

\Mikkel