[mythtv-users] WAF through the floor, with lost database!

[Paul Gardiner]

Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net> wrote:
>>Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Michael T. Dean
>>><mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, hmmm, I do see what you are saying... wouldn't be able to cut
>>>>> and transcode from there though.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I know Jim Stichnoth was working on allowing that.  I don't know if
>>>it's
>>>> in 0.27 or not, though.
>>>>
>>>
>>>I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to, but I can say that
>0.27
>>>definitely allows you to edit the cutlist for a Video Library video,
>>as
>>>long as it has a seektable.  Also, you can copy the seektable and
>>other
>>>metadata (including cutlist metadata) into and out of videos using
>>>"mythutil --video".
>>>
>>>Jim
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>Nice. I hadn't noticed that was now possible. The last problem then is
>>that these files have no seek table. Is there some way to generate
>one?
>>Is it not the case that things like mythcomflag require chanid and
>>starttime? Also mythtranscode: is that useable on video files now?
>
>Ooh! Mythcommflag has --video and mythtranscode has --infile. Will that
>work? Is there a way to drive the latter from a user job like I
>currently do for recordings?

Perhaps I can update my user jobs to use %FILE%, and then they should work on both recordings and videos.