Recording CUT Start-End Time Help Quick Solution?

[muppet4k 10]

Hi,

is it possible after emby recorded something (normally +2min and +3min end) that I can set a mark in and mark out where the film/series should start and end?

So when I start a recorded film that its start at the right beginning.

Is something possible?

Or how is anybody solving this problem in a quick way?

thank you

[visproduction 315]

If the recorded media is a single file, rather than a series of files, then editor can easily edit out any unwanted start and end times.  Since you are dealing with compressed media, you won't be able to edit on an exact frame.  Removing  start and end sections for a 2 hour media can be handled in about 2 minute load into the editor, a minute to pick the edit spots and 2 minutes to make a new media file on even a slow computer or notebook.  Since you have to choose the editing points, there is really no automated way to do it.  That's about 12 to 20, 2 hour media files done in an hour.  Plus the initial 1/2 hour to get familar enough with the editor.  I use AVIdemux.

The problem in making this available inside Emby is that this functionality requires adding either some editing or tagging each file with a start and end timing which adds one or two columns to the dbase and sacrifices server speed and adds size and complexity to the dbase that will create slower response times and probably bugs that need continous support.  Adding such functions to Emby might be used by some fraction of the users. 

Another issue is that each platform would need different code to support this start 2 minutes into the film function.  All plateforms and TV media players handle this differently, so this one feature would require, perhaps 20 sets of code development.   I would guess, maybe 1 in 5000 Emby users would ever use it.  Finally, if this feature does become available to Emby and users can't remember how to access it to adjust or they accidentally adjust it for media, can't find a way to turn it off because it would an extra setting.  Such users could decide that Emby is too complex and leave and never return.  These are, I think, reasonable considerations and in my opinion, if you want media to start and end where you prefer, then redit the video yourself.  Emby should not be doing this.