ProjectX Transcode

Transcoding, removing commercials:

"""
My procedure is something like this:

1) Having M740 connected via SAMBA proto & 100Mbps Ethernet to my Linux box => so aired DVB-T MPEGs (TS format) are stored right away on the target platform/box.

2) I use Cridical (cridical.exe) for exports of the M740 recording to a single *.ts file (a TS MPEG).

2.1) Note: Not calling PVAStrumento, just cridical.exe, and I select a "TS" export in Cridical. It is very fast (it's basically a merge of all M740 recordings/files related to a single show).

2.2) Note: I run cridical.exe via Wine - without problems.

3) Now, having a TS MPEG (*.ts) file, ProjectX comes into play. I simply open a file in the ProjectX GUI, and then select Videocuts/Specials. Then I mark the commercials out, and from the main screen I select the "demux" and press the "Go" button.

After a while, the ProjectX tells you it's done. Now you have demuxed audio and video streams (*.mpa, *.m2v).

Commercials free, of course.

4) Using mplex from mjpegtools, I create a DVD-compliant MPEG file, suitable for DVD authoring - like this:

$ mplex -f 8 -o final.mpg video.m2v video.mpa

This is also very quick - no encoding here.

5) This final MPG file is the usable in DVDauthor, or can be used for input into other processing (like MPEG4 transcoding via transcode/mencoder or whatever you wish).
"""

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=ProjectX

If mplex complains/quits due to too many drops, use tcmplex:
# tcmplex -i file1.m2v -p file1.ac3 -o final_dvd.mpg -m d

"-m d" == DVD mode

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ProjectX keyboard:
<- moves to the previous I-frame
-> moves to the next I-frame
Shift -> advances at 1/10th the speed of the >> button
Shift <- works like << but at 1/10th the speed
Ctrl -> is the same as the >> button
Ctrl <- is the same as the << button
Alt -> works like >> but at 10 times the speed
Alt <- works like << but at 10 times the speed
Page up advances even more than
Page down is the reverse action to page up
Home goes to the beginning of the stream
End goes to the end of the stream
a adds a cut point
d deletes a cut point
n goes to the next cut point
p goes to the previous cut point