[MPlayer-users] Removing commercials etc from DVB .mpg program stream

[Eric Estabrooks]

Nico Sabbi wrote:

> Kimmo Mustonen wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I though that there should be several working solutions to this problem
>> but I haven't found any yet. :( I have recorded DVB stream that starts
>> before the actual program starts, ends 10-15 minutes after the program
>> ends and the programs may contain commercials. How to remove the
>> commercials without losing (any?) quality first and then re-encode the
>> program to fit a certain size, like a CD or whatever. For re-encoding I
>> googled a shell script called encodedvd.sh doing a two-pass encoding,
>> edited that to read a file instead of a DVD, but it crashed mencoder
>> before completing the whole thing. I can provide more details on this
>> later when I have first been able to cut the original stream.
>>
>>  
>>
>
> you can dump the stream with dvbstream  using -ps (to save as program 
> stream)  then
> cut all you don't want using GOPchop,

avidemux works very nice for editing mpeg2 files and it has an option to 
output an mpeg2 file back out without re-encoding once you've cut out 
the stuff you want (its the File/Save/Save as DVD PS option).

Eric

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