Is there any way to cut PDTV videos with the nativ x264 encoder?

[pcroland]

Or what should I use to cut out the commercials?

[F J Walter]

Avidemux will work in a pinch (and might be OK for just cutting commercials) but its interface is not all that specialised for heavy editing.

Back when I used to do that sort of thing I purchased VideoReDo which allows lossless (apart from the GOP you're editing) trimming of commercials in MPEG-2 streams and was pretty good with auto-detection.

Then you'd just feed the result through x264 later...

[Ghitulescu]

What kind of PDTV? While cutters for SDTV are like sand in the sea, few HDTV cutters are really available. Of course, the complexity of the PDTV is another issue - I like to have all streams cut (that is together with subtitles and audio streams).