Editing Software

[nt4os]

I am wondering what software cappers use for capturing and editing?

I have used OBS for capturing. Does this have widespread use? What alternatives are there?

What programs are used for editing the captured video? Cutting out commercials and Start and ending periods etc.

Thanks,

[fcy590dqubxho]

I use ffmpeg to cut out the commercials.
It's a boring process but it doesn't take too long once you get used to it.

As for capping I don't really release my stuff tbh. Mostly I'm just interested in getting all my favorite NHL team's games with our home casters which is not always the one that gets released.
The NHL broadcasts both home and away streams on the NHL.tv website and there is a way to get the source video file that they broadcast which negates the need of having to capture it with something like OBS.

I just chop that file up with ffmpeg as it is the only way that I know off that allows you to cut video and audio really fast without having to re-encode it. (to keep the quality from degrading)

I would however be interested to know how other people do it though.
I know they do it manually at least because almost everyone cuts out the entire mid-period discussion so that makes me doubt they use AI to do it.

[nonspin]

The rls-scene (98% i'd say) doesn't screen-record (or live stream-dump) and then somehow cut out the intermissions
with some magical script ... Why should or would we ?
It's way too many variables involved and too much work.

Usually, right after a show has aired, the Network itself places it on their servers,
w/out ads or intermissions <- see what i mean?

Can you also see the emerging pattern ? We LOVE patterns.
Once there is a pattern, i setup a script listening/waiting for the media to appear.
From there, everything is automated - There is 'person' checking the media, writing the .nfo .. bla.

After fetching/decrypting the media, ffmpeg is used (from? you guessed it.. a script)
to properly encode the media (make it compy with the scene-rls-rules) ..
Then it get packaged and pushed to another place - if you will ;D

From there, Couriers (Bots. Yes, scripts) are handling the distribution.

regards

P.s: No, i will not further elaborate. Thanks.

[nt4os]

I understand and know how the scene works but I am very interested in the scripting for automatically grabbing online steaming content once available, via youtube-dl and or ffmpeg.

I have gotten to the art of using youtube-dl with --cookies. But I would love to be able to automate this process instead of cutting and pasting long URLs etc, and being able to rename each download to it's unique release name, then grabbing the next streamed content automatically and do the same with it.

I am not a programmer, but a old school network guy.

I would appreciate any help or any light that anyone can shine on this.

Regards,