Well earlier I almost said that I know just enough about formats and this terminology to be dangerous. So now I will. I am!
I just found out that AVC and h.264 are basically the same thing. Here's from Wikipedia:
"H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 or AVC (Advanced Video Coding) is a standard for video compression, and is currently one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of high definition video. The final drafting work on the first version of the standard was completed in May 2003.
"H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is a block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) joint working group, the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). The product of this partnership effort is known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). The ITU-T H.264 standard and the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 AVC standard (formally, ISO/IEC 14496-10 – MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding) are jointly maintained so that they have identical technical content.
H.264 is perhaps best known as being one of the codec standards for Blu-ray Discs; all Blu-ray Disc players must be able to decode H.264. It is also widely used by streaming internet sources, such as videos from Vimeo, YouTube, and the iTunes Store, web software such as the Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Silverlight, and also various HDTV broadcasts over terrestrial (ATSC, SBTVD, DVB-T or DVB-T2), cable (DVB-C) and satellite (DVB-S and DVB-S2)."
So the problem comes down to what I mentioned earlier: For Comskip to work with h.264/AVC the 'Donators Version' of Comskip has to be used. I'm pretty sure that is not what MC-TVConverter is using. And I don't know how he could include that for free with his program since the Comskip developer wants a 'Donation' for it.
But possibly he could make a 'Call' to an external Donators Version of Comskip that people like me would have installed on our PC after we make our Donation. That's basically how it presently works with SageTV.
Added on Edit: I forgot to mention that I used Media Info to check SageTV Recordings. They show the exact same info as the ones recorded in MC17. And again, the edl files are being created in Sage because I have the Donators version on Comskip.
Thoughts?
Rod