MythTV has a commercial detection script that runs automatically. It doesn't always seem to find them. (I edited one program last night, it found one break.) I went to the Linux server and marked the breaks in Myth front end, and transcoded to another MPEG2 file without commercials, etc. I'd like to keep them for longer-term storage... so I'd rather not waste the archive space on commercials if I could help it.
Plex evidently doesn't like MPEG2, or at least not how MythTV / mythtranscode outputs them. There was mention of transcoding to mp4 to get Plex to work, but that is where my tiredness overtook me last night. Paul Boniol On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Chris McQuistion <[email protected]> wrote: > In the past, I used DVRMS Toolbox on Windows to monitor a video directory, > run Comskip against a video file to generate a file showing where > commercials were, and generate various output files (including XML files) > to show where the commercial segments are in the video. One of the output > files was a VPRJ file, which could be used with VideoRedo to actually cut > out the commercials. > > A lot of work to get set up and working, but it was cool. When I had to > rebuild that system, I decided it was too much work to go through all that > again. I just hit the skip forward button a few times when I get to a > commercial. > > As for watching files on your Roku, you might want to check out Plex > (there is a Free and Premium version.) It can run on Windows/Mac/Linux as > your backend and there is a Plex app on Roku to play your media files, > there. > > Chris > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> My current trial and error experiments re Linux revolve around MythTV >> video transcoding. The perfect end game would be to flag >> start/stop/commercials on a front-end Windows box (maybe unrealistic), >> transcode the cut video on my Linux Myth box, and watch at leisure on >> Roku. If anyone is an expert, I'm all ears! :) >> >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:54 PM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> If anyone has any topic they'd like to discuss, I'd appreciate it. >>> Otherwise we could do an expanded asleep at the prompt and pick a few >>> linux commands. >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > I've heard nothing about tonight's topic. 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