[MEncoder-users] Removing Commercials with Mencoder and EDL

[Gary C. New]

I am using the lastest binaries of mplayer and
mencoder for Windows.

I am trying to remove commercials from an mpeg2 file
using edl information created by Show Analyzer.

Here are the cli arguments that I am using:

"c:\Program Files\mplayer\mencoder" "test.mpg" -edl
"test.edl" -oac copy -ovc copy -of mpeg -o
"test_clean.mpg"

Here is the edl file contents:

0	88.8555	0
266.333	400.834	0
746.18	895.696	0
1256.02	1430.26	0
1781.75	1978.61	0

And here is the mencoder process output:

MEncoder 1.0pre7-3.4.2 (C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Foster (Family: 8,
Stepping: 4)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0
SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this
is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with
--disable-runtime-cpudetection.
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
Failed to open frameno.avi
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x39822c28
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  3500.0
kbps (437.5 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:2  fourcc:0x10000002  size:720x480 
fps:29.97  ftime:=0.0334
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 224.0 kbit/14.58%
(ratio: 28000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG
layer-2, layer-3)
==========================================================================
PACKET SIZE: 2048 bytes
videocodec: framecopy (720x480 24bpp fourcc=10000002)
audiocodec: framecopy (format=50 chans=2 rate=48000
bits=16 bps=28000 sample-1)
Writing AVI header...
Limiting audio preload to 0.4s
Increasing audio density to 4
Read 5 EDL actions.
AUDIO FRAME SIZE: 672, DELTA_PTS: 2211840 (-0.000)
INITIAL DELAY of 2 frames   0fps Trem:   0min   0mb 
A-V:0.047 [0:0]
Pos:   0.7s     22f ( 4%)   0fps Trem:   0min   5mb 
A-V:0.070 [0:224]
Skipping frame!
Pos:   1.0s     32f ( 4%)   0fps Trem:   0min   9mb 
A-V:0.070 [3774:224]
Skipping frame!
Pos:   1.4s     44f ( 4%)   0fps Trem:   0min   9mb 
A-V:0.068 [3634:224]
Skipping frame!
Pos:1889.5s  56631f (100%) 562fps Trem:   0min 853mb 
A-V:0.062 [3492:224]
Writing AVI index...

Overhead: 2.036% (17872784 / 877670512)
Fixing AVI header...

Video stream: 3492.518 kbit/s  (436564 bps)  size:
824884608 bytes  1889.490 sec
s  56631 frames

Audio stream:  224.000 kbit/s  (28000 bps)  size:
52904712 bytes  1889.454 secs

The process seems to recognize the EDL actions, but
the final output only shows the first commercial
removed.

Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Respectfully,


Gary