[clug] academic and. Video editing
Norm Bakker
nab at pcug.org.au
Mon Apr 13 15:23:26 MDT 2015
I've been using ProjectX to do this for some time. It is written in Java
and is easily installed. Just download the jar from the website and use as
is.
Norm Bakker
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> 3. Re: RTL2832U, SDR, Avidemux and editing out advertising from
> recorded television (Scott Ferguson)
> 4. Re: linux Digest, Vol 148, Issue 13 (Scott Ferguson)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:12:59 +1000
> From: Brenton Ross <rossb at fwi.net.au>
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [clug] linux Digest, Vol 148, Issue 13
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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).
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:46:31 +1000
> From: John Mills <johnmi at effect.net.au>
> To: linux at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [clug] linux Digest, Vol 148, Issue 13
> Message-ID: <20150413014631.GB25141 at nimbus>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> 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
> > X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 (3.4.4-2.fc17)
> >
> > 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
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:57:12 +1000
> From: Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com>
> To: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] RTL2832U, SDR, Avidemux and editing out
> advertising from recorded television
> Message-ID: <552B5AB8.5020305 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> On 12/04/15 13:59, Stephen Hocking wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > I've been running MythTV since about 2003/4, and the automatic
> > commercial detection is a bit hit & miss, or was the last time I tried
> > it a few years ago. It does have a good video editor, which together
> > with lossless transcoding, gives good results. I'm running my backend in
> > a VM, with it talking to a couple of HDHomeruns over the net. Most of
> > the hypervisors will allow PCI & USB passthrough to VMs, so I think
> > you'd be OK.
>
>
> Thanks Stephen - I'd read the docs on MythTV commercial detection
> parameters and was dubious about it's reliability.
>
> I'm sure someone has looked at using sound compression levels to detect
> ads - but couldn't quickly find any references. I know the Japanese
> video recorders reliably remove ads on the basis of shows/movies having
> multiple languages and ads having none - but couldn't find any
> references to software projects that do the same.
>
> I'll have a look at what MythTV uses for video editing, I'd prefer to
> use a frame based editor to avoid those fade transition relics. Avidemux
> is great for simple frame based edits - and has the added advantage that
> it also works natively with most video formats which save a lot of time
> transcoding.
>
> I found Comskip which seems fairly useful for marking ads, which I could
> later feed the output of into ffmpeg (as another poster suggested) to
> autochop the ads out.
>
> Comskip requires WINE:-
> http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/
>
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Scott Ferguson
> > <scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com <mailto:scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > 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).
> >
> >
> > Kind regards
> > --
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> > linux at lists.samba.org <mailto:linux at lists.samba.org>
> > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux
> >
> >
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:05:03 +1000
> From: Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com>
> To: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] linux Digest, Vol 148, Issue 13
> Message-ID: <552B5C8F.2070503 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> On 13/04/15 11:12, Brenton Ross wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> Thanks Brenton
>
> > (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.
>
>
> Three methods I've found. The simplest one seems to be to use VirtualDub,
> http://neuron2.net/delogo132/delogo.html
> http://compression.ru/video/logo_removal/index_en.html
>
> you could also attempt to do it manually with mplayer's delogo or remove
> logo, but it's fiddly.
> delogo[=x:y:w:h:t]
> remove-logo=/path/to/logo_bitmap_file_name.pgm
>
>
> The most effective way is probably too much of an investment for most -
> use a custom designed FPGA
>
> http://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/television-logo-killer/msg434376/?PHPSESSID=4057d76234d87655056437d1d800056f#msg434376
>
> Note that the person behind that is not too far away.
>
> >
> > 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).
> >>
> >>
> >> Kind regards
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:07:11 +1000
> From: Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com>
> To: CLUG List <linux at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [clug] linux Digest, Vol 148, Issue 13
> Message-ID: <552B5D0F.4020309 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> On 13/04/15 11:46, John Mills wrote:
> > 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
> >> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 (3.4.4-2.fc17)
> >>
> <snipped>
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >
>
> Thanks John - I'll take a look at it.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
>
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