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Very very very good tool indeed!
I personally use it for cutting commercials off my DVBT recordings - recorded by my Siemens M740 box.
ProjectX works very well, I was very surprised by its usability and namely performance (was a bit sceptic because of the underlying Java).
My procedure is something like this:
1) Having M740 connected via SAMBA proto & 100Mbps Ethernet to my Linux box => so aired DVB-T MPEGs (TS format) are stored right away on the target platform/box.
2) I use Cridical (cridical.exe) for exports of the M740 recording to a single *.ts file (a TS MPEG).
2.1) Note: Not calling PVAStrumento, just cridical.exe, and I select a "TS" export in Cridical. It is very fast (it's basically a merge of all M740 recordings/files related to a single show).
2.2) Note: I run cridical.exe via Wine - without problems.
3) Now, having a TS MPEG (*.ts) file, ProjectX comes into play. I simply open a file in the ProjectX GUI, and then select Videocuts/Specials. Then I mark the commercials out, and from the main screen I select the "demux" and press the "Go" button.
After a while, the ProjectX tells you it's done. Now you have demuxed audio and video streams (*.mpa, *.m2v).
Commercials free, of course.
4) Using mplex from mjpegtools, I create a DVD-compliant MPEG file, suitable for DVD authoring - like this:
$ mplex -f 8 -o final.mpg video.m2v video.mpa
This is also very quick - no encoding here.
5) This final MPG file is the usable in DVDauthor, or can be used for input into other processing (like MPEG4 transcoding via transcode/mencoder or whatever you wish).
So the summary is:
YES! Try this tool! It's worth installing it.
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