[mythtv-users] Commercials aren't actually removed

F Peeters (MythTV) francesco at fampeeters.com
Sun Jun 24 08:57:14 UTC 2007


On Thu, June 21, 2007 02:27, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> * On Sun Jun 17, 2007 at 09:42:44PM -0400, David Fishburn wrote:
>> > Now here is the interesting thing (at least to me).
>> > If I edit the video (in the frontend), and set the cut points.
>> > Then from the frontend, run a transcode (autodetect which is
>> > set to lossless and honour cut list), the command executed is:
>> >
>> > /usr/bin/mythtranscode -j 2274 -V 3 -p autodetect -l
>> >
>> >
>> > This does correctly and significantly change the filesize.
>> > It also (correctly) zeros out the Commercial Skip List.
>> >
>> >
>> > The -j and -V switches are not listed in the --help above.
>>
>> So I have determined the -j is the jobid listed in the jobqueue.
>> I can only assume the -V is some level of verbosity.
>
> They're not in the help because they're not meant to be used b
> users, they are there for the JobQueue to use.  -j is the JobQueue id
> as you deduced, and -V is the numeric value of the combined -v options
> passed to mythbackend or mythjobqueue, whichever one is calling
> mythtranscode in this case.
>
Make sure you use a recent version of mythtranscode that actually supports
the -j option... This was added relatively recent, so if you haven't
upgraded mythtranscode in a while, it may not know what to do with it...

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