[MPlayer-users] Reencoding without commercials AND best codec

[Andre Bruce]

Hi!
Since i got mencoder working perfectly i started recording everything
from TV.
Now i want to remove commercials. What i am doing at the momment is
keeping a list of the 'start' and 'end' of all commercials. Then i start
re-encoding from the original big .AVI, using -ss and -endpos.
The problem is that i  have to do that for each  commercial.
Is it possible to make something like a list of parts to be re-encoded?
Example: 6 minutes to 10 minutes, AND , 15 minutes to 20 minutes? Then i
would just re-encode those 2 parts of the original .AVI. Any ideas?

An other question: What is the best codec? I mean, the one which will
make the file SMALLER ? :P

THNX!
Andre (BRAZIL