Exporting Humax bookmarks

[cdmackay]

Is anyone aware of any way/tool to export Humax recording bookmarks, such that they could be used with a viewing utility on another platform, e.g. VLC?

VLC, for example, has a custom bookmark facility, so it might be possible, at least in theory?


thanks much...

 

[cdmackay]

sigh this ought not to be in the CF forum?

 

[Black Hole]

But most likely to acquire a CF solution!

Can you provide a reference to the specification for VLC bookmarks?

 

[MymsMan]

Bookmarks, like most other Humax program metadata, live in the hmt file so you would need a program that can read the hmt file and generate the equivalent file that is used by VLC.
The program could be run on either the Humax or a PC.

 

[Black Hole]

It doesn't look difficult to write a script which takes the output of the CF hmt utility and pipes it into grep or sed or something (I like awk) to generate the VLC file. I might even try it myself if I get a bit of time later.

 

[cdmackay]

thanks both, that's most helpful. I had assumed that VLC's bookmarks would be in some impenetrable format, and was hoping someone might have already done it.

Sounds like it's plausible, at least - thanks again...

 

[DaveQ]

I'd love to do the same - to get the DetectAds bookmarks. Did you make any progress with this?

 

[ian_j]

Could these be used in VideoRedo as scene markers to aid in removing adverts?

 

[xyz321]

You could try something like this...

#!/bin/sh

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <hmtfile>"
  exit 1
fi

flag=0
for bm in $(hmt -bookmarks "$1"); do
  if [ $flag -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "#EXTVLCOPT:start-time=$bm"
  else
    echo "#EXTVLCOPT:stop-time=$bm"
    echo $(basename "$1" .hmt).ts
  fi
  flag=$((flag^1))
done

Edit: changed filename generation

 

[DaveQ]

Looking at the format of the VLC file, it includes the local filename of the .ts file, so probably the only option would be a program on the destination device to create/amend the VLC file from the HMT.

 

[DaveQ]

Or some combination. I think Humax records frame numbers whereas the VLS playlist uses seconds from the start