I was happy to come across this post and thought I would give it a try, and I simply want to cut out commercials and move to an MKV container. I use Plex, and it will transcode for playback on devices that don't direct support MKV, so I'm not really worried about compatibility--just getting away from WTV. The vast majority, if not all, of my WTV recordings are MPEG-2 video and AC-3 audio. Some are 1080p, some are 1080i, and at least one is 720p (at a whopping 60fps) and come from OTA broadcast in the US. So I used the 'MKV Uncompressed' profile from the original post, but removed the 'AllowH264CopyRemuxing' line as I don't have the donate version of Comskip, and I'm not coming from H264. Strangely, though, the resulting MKV video stream is about half the bitrate of the original, resulting in a smaller file size. I'm not familiar at all with ffmpeg options, so I wouldn't even know where to begin to look. Can you, or someone, help with a profile that will simply take the original video (MPEG-2) and audio (AC-3) as-is, remove the commercials, and remux it to an MKV container? Thanks much.
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