[mythtv-users] How to transcode+cut commercials 100% lossless

G Venkataraman gvenkat at gmail.com
Sat Aug 9 04:41:21 UTC 2008


On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Bobby Gill <bobbygill at rogers.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM, <mythtv at corwyn.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> If you get this working, pls let me know, as I've tried and it
>> doesn't appear to work.
>>
>> At 05:20 PM 8/8/2008, Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote:
>> >Bobby Gill wrote:
>> > > Thank you, I am here:
>> > >
>> >
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Talk:Script_-_RemoveCommercials#honorcutlist_and_mpeg2_lossless_transcoding
>> > >
>> > > But this part:
>> > >
>> > > "Then the script can be modified as such.
>> > >
>> > > CHANID=$3
>> > > STARTTIME=`echo $4 | sed -e
>> >
>> 's/\([0-9]\{4\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)/\1-\2-\3-\4-\5/'`
>> > > ....
>> > > mythtranscode --mpgeg2 --honorcutlist -c $CHANID -s $STARTTIME -o
>> > $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME.tmp"
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Where exactly do I add that into the script? I don't wanna put it in
>> the
>> > > wrong place. Thanks for the links!
>> >
>> >You should be able to just use the complete script at the end of this
>> page.
>> >
>> >Bolek
>>
>
> Okay I'm getting some wierd stuff happening. For some of my recordings, the
> Job Queue winds up with successfull completion, but on others it is giving
> me an error that it can't find the executable (the script).
>
> I have the file in /usr/bin, permissions are right:
>
> ~ # ls -laF /usr/bin/ | grep removecommercials
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 bobby2 bobby2     2100 2008-08-08 20:51 removecommercials*
> -rw-r--r--  1 bobby2 bobby2     5641 2008-08-08 20:47 removecommercials~
>
> This is from /var/log/mythbackend.log:
>
> 2008-08-08 20:54:17.701 JobQueue Error: User Job 'removecommercials
> /media/mythtv Licence to Grill- Skateboard Dude Party- Maple mustard pork
> burgers; chicken smoked pizza; corn on the cob with chili
> butter.-07.10.08.mpg' failed, unable to find executable, check your PATH and
> backend logs.
> 2008-08-08 20:54:17.790 JobQueue: Current PATH:
> '/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/bin/perlbin/site:/usr/bin/perlbin/vendor:/usr/bin/perlbin/core:/opt/qt/bin'
> (END) "
>
> Here's my path from /etc/profile:
>
> export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin
>
> I'm kind of intermediate at best with linux so hopefully someone can
> clarify what I've done wrong or am missing here?? My job in mythtv-setup is
> still:
>
> removecommercials %DIR% %FILE%
>
> Now not only this, but on the recordings that ran the job successfully
> there is no difference; nothing has been cut. I'm using the entire script
> from the Talk page as advised by Boleslaw. Is my Job command above incorrect
> for this version of the script?? This is puzzilng :(
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Bob
>



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