[MEncoder-users] windows mencoder -edl issue

[Gary C. New]

After spending a great deal of time with the comskip
developer, we discovered that the core of this problem
is actually my hardware capture card (Maui-III).  For
some reason it outputs mpeg2 files with non-standard
timing (i.e., thus the resulting -edlout below).

Is it possible to retime an mpeg2 file with mencoder?

I would prefer that the resulting files remain in
mpeg2 format as I have a hardware mpeg2 decoder which
I view them with.

Retiming the original mpeg2 should then allow me to
use the standard edl timed files generated by comskip,
ShowAnalyzer, etc to remove commercials.

Your comments/suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Respectfully,


Gary


--- "Gary C. New" <garycnew at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I discovered the problem.  It is because of comskip.
> 
> When I use comskip to generate the edl file I get:
> 
> 0.03	78.51	0
> 648.81	795.43	0
> 1622.25	1771.74	0
> 1979.01	1979.04	0
> 
> When I generate the edl file manually using mplayer
> and -edlout I get:
> 
> 71836.203125 71914.710938 0
> 72484.578125 72631.664063 0
> 73458.453125 73558.757813 0
> 73587.757813 73815.257813 0
> 
> And when I feed the manually created mplayer -edlout
> file to mencoder it transcodes the video correctly
> leaving all the delete list segments out.
> 
> Any idea why the two very different edl files?  Why
> will the first skip segment work under the comskip
> -edl file, but none of the remaining segments?  Why
> does the manually generated mplayer -edlout file
> work
> perfectly?
> 
> Thank you for your assistance.
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> 
> Gary