[mythtv-users] Cutlist in MythVideo?

[Richard Morton]

Hi There,

I think I have read (not tried) but use MythExport to export your
selected recordings into the mythvideo area I think it can support
cutlists although i am not sure.

R


Thanks And Regards,

Richard Morton


2009/10/12 Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:04 AM, belcampo <belcampo at zonnet.nl> wrote:
>> Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>>>
>>> I was thinking of trying to consolidate my movies recorded from the
>>> HD-PVR into the MythVideo area.  Some of the recorded movies have
>>> commercial breaks.  All of them have junk at the beginning to skip
>>> over.  I can create cutlists in the Recordings area, but these don't
>>> apply to a movie copied over to the MythVideo area.  I can't remove
>>> the junk permanently since lossless transcoding isn't supported for
>>> HD-PVR recordings.
>>
>> If you search the list for Editing/transcoding HD-PVR you'll find a way to
>> cut junk at start and end.
>> Search for cutlist to ogg chapter file and you'll find a way to create a mkv
>> muxed with chapters, which you can use as it where chapter selection from a
>> DVD. Works perfect. You probably need mplayer for playing, I don't know if
>> internal works.
>>>
>>> For the HD-PVR recording to work at all under MythVideo, I first have
>>> to run "mythcommflag --video /path/to/file.mpg" to get a valid
>>> seektable.  I thought to try adding the cutlist as well to the video
>>> file by extracting the cutlist from the original recording
>>> (mythcommflag --getcutlist --file /path/to/original/file.mpg), and
>>> adding it to the new video file (mythcommflag --video
>>> /path/to/file.mpg --setcutlist xxx), but mythcommflag doesn't like
>>> that.
>>>
>>> If the cutlist were actually present in the database along with the
>>> seektable, would the Internal player obey it under MythVideo?  Can
>>> someone give the sql command to try?  (I know the risks, but this
>>> would be just on my test system.)
>
> I *really* want to continue using the Internal player everywhere
> possible, to maintain a consistent user interface and avoid lowering
> the WAF.
>
> In any case, I looked into this further myself, and found that the
> Internal player does indeed honor the cutlist in MythVideo.  I was
> able to modify mythcommflag to do the reasonable thing when --video is
> used along with --getcutlist, --clearcutlist, and --setcutlist.
>
> Jim
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>