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oliver69 · Posted: Tue 21 Aug 2012, 10:20 Post subject: Looking for simple video editor

Hi All,

i have a pvr to record tv programs - but it also records the ads during the movies. Now i looking for a simple! videoeditor to remove the ads from the videofile - no other options needed. pup-file preferred.

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

What video format is used by the PVR?

VOB
Mpeg2.TS
Mpeg2.PS
etc

stu91 · Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2012, 11:44 Post subject:

Perhaps a simpler solution than video editing is to use an mplayer .edl file to skip sections of the video you do not wish to watch:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/edl.html

oliver69 · Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2012, 12:48 Post subject:

oliver69 · Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2012, 12:49 Post subject:

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

You could try Cinelerra

I found this on the forum v2.1 ( latest v2.2 stable) , not sure which build of Puppy your using:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46346

If that fails to do the job, you could download it on a livecd from here:

http://cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php

Or try Puppy Studio:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=72402

stu91 · Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2012, 13:50 Post subject:

ffmpeg command line could probably do it - don't know about other gui video editors but maybe some of them require you re transcode the file after editing ( not good on low spec / slow systems ) worth checking out Avidemux to see if it supports the formats of your video files as you can edit / cut / join them with out re transcoding.

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

Doh!

AviDemux would be perfect Smile

If you need addition codec info on your files, try MediaInfo:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76019

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 3613 Location: Earth

I have use this in another distro in the past. We do NOT have a PiTiVi.PET in this community though. But, its an open-source package for Linux community. We might find it extremely useful as we march into the future.

PiTiVi - a free and open-source video editor for Linux

Here to help

oliver69 · Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2012, 17:52 Post subject:

stu91 · Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2012, 23:39 Post subject:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg

-i = input video file
-vcodec copy -acodec copy = Do not re-enecode / transcode
-ss = Seek to given time position
-t = Duration

For instance this will cut first 15 minutes of file.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2363 Location: UK

Avidemux, GTK version (no Qt required): http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=591502#591502

oliver69 · Posted: Sat 25 Aug 2012, 13:35 Post subject:

using avidemux now - it's perfect Wink

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 3613 Location: Earth

Have not ever used AVIdemux. I do have a need to combine 2 camera videos into a single video. And, I also would like to clip segments of my family videos and piece together into a single video.

Quesiton

Does anything discussed in this thread lend itself to that function?Thanks, in advance, for any information

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

AviDemux will do this, if the files are in the same format then it's inbuilt wizard will recognise this and invoke 'Smart Copy' for joining files together; no need to encode as it will do a direct stream copy.