[MEncoder-users] edl for transport stream

[Malte Schünemann]

Etienne Buira wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 05:30:03PM +0200, Malte Schhhnemann wrote:
>   
>> RC wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:22:04 +0200
>>> Malte Schünemann <malte.schuenemann at web.de> wrote:
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>>>> Even edl  scripts created via -edlout do not work - scenes cut out are
>>>> different  from what I selected before.
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>>>>         
>>> -hr-edl-seek
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>>>       
>> Thanks for that suggestion - however, I did not succeed with that 
>> additional option specified.
>>     
>
> Hi.
>
> I don't really understand the problem, nor how it 'did not succeed', 
> but I'll describe you a known to work method to skip commercials.
>
> 1. Play your file, using -edlout edl_file, pressing 'i' when needed
> 2a. If you don't want to reencode the streams (just remux, -oac copy
> -ovc copy), you can just specify -edl edl_file, and the cut will not be
> accurate, as mencoder has to resume remuxing on the next I frame.
> 2b. You want to reencode the streams, using -oac xxx -ovc xxx with xxx
> others than 'copy', and then you specify -hr-edl-seek -edl edl_file, and
> then the cut should be accurate.
>
> Please give some tries, and if it doesn't work like you want, please
> tell how you differ from the method I suggested, your exact command
> lines, mencoder's outputs, your edl file, as well as the result of
> 'ffmpeg -i your_tv_capture.ts'.
>   
I did some further tests and found that most of the videos in fact work 
fine. However, there are sometimes videos where the timestamps start 
with rather high numbers and are reset to 0 in the middle of the film. 
It seems that in these videos, there is a problem. The timestamps I have 
in the edl list cut out other parts of the video that what I intended. I 
only can edit properly after a first "-oac copy -ovc copy" of the video.

Malte