[clug] linux Digest, Vol 148, Issue 13

[John Mills]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:12:59AM +1000, Brenton Ross wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:12:59 +1000
> From: Brenton Ross <rossb at fwi.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [clug] linux Digest, Vol 148, Issue 13
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
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> 
> Scott,
> 
> my reaction would be to use mplayer to set the start and end points of
> the edits into an "edl" list. See the mplayer docs for details.
> Then I would use ffmpeg to perform the deletes.
> (In practice I use my PVR to do this step, so I have not actually tried
> the above.)
> 
> What I am now looking for is something to mask the station identifier
> blobs that are scattered over the running movies.
> 
> Brenton
> 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:43:12 +1000
> > From: Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com>
> > To: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> > Subject: [clug] RTL2832U, SDR, Avidemux and editing out advertising
> > 	from recorded television
> > Message-ID: <5529BFA0.7090900 at gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> > 
> > I recently purchased a cheap RTL2832U chipset TV stick for use as a SDR
> > and GPS.
> > Digital Energy Mini Digital TV Stick, BlazeVide HDTV Player (RTL2838
> > DVB-T+DAB+FM)
> > It took a little fiddling to get it fully working on Wheezy with
> > backports, but I did take notes if anyone needs help getting one working.
> > 
> > As a TV recorder it works well and I'm now looking at way to remove ads
> > from the recordings. I've used Avidemux in the past but it's now a
> > challenge to use on a stable box.
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to do this?
> > I don't really want to dedicate a box to it, but would consider chroot
> > or VirtualBox solutions. I also have a Crossover Office license if WINE
> > is useful.
> > 
> > I've not had much experience with MythTV - and I'm not much of a TV
> > watcher anyway so I'm not particularly interested in setting one up (I'm
> > pretty happy with XBMC). But I've heard MythTV has the ability to remove
> > ads from recordings... anyone used that facility?
> > 
> > Any suggestions and experiences in removing ads from recorded TV are
> > appreciated (as long as they work on Linux).

I found 'dvbcut' was good for manually editing .ts files.
dvbcut.sourceforge.net

John Mills