[mythtv-users] mythtranscode cutlist argument?

[jlistspam]

On 7/17/2010 11:45 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 14/07/10 03:38, jlistspam wrote:
>> On 7/9/2010 5:00 PM, Christopher Meredith wrote:
>>> According to the help output, mythtranscode can be used with the
>>> --infile and --honorcutlist flags and the latter "Optionally takes a
>>> cutlist as an argument when used with --infile." Can anyone tell me
>>> what format this argument should be? I've tried creating a plaintext
>>> file with this:
>>>
>>> 1836,13700-18207,29554-36778,50077-54307,55801-
>>>
>>> and passing the text file as an argument, and I've tried passing that
>>> whole string as an argument. In both cases, the file is transcoded but
>>> no cuts are honored. How should this argument be formatted?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
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>> I use getcustlist to get the cut list: mythcommflag --getcutlist -f
>> /video/2054_20100124170000.mpg
>>
>> with the output of: Cutlist:
>> 0-163,9630-18820,28905-37340,50045-58484,74368-82668
>>
>> I then pass it to mythtranscode as: --honorcutlist "0-163 9630-18820
>> 28905-37340 50045-58484 74368-82668" replacing the commas with spaces.
>>
>> John
>>
>
> Hi: I saw an earlier very similar post from you about this, although 
> they don't appear in the same thread in my reader.  I'm not clear why 
> you would want to do this if you are getting the cutlist from 
> mythcommflag, because mythtranscode --honorcutlist  ought to use the 
> internal cutlist as default anyway.  Is it just an example or do you 
> actually use it like this?  - and if so, why?  Just curious.
>
> John P
>
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Sorry for the duplicate.  I had never replied before to a posting and 
didn't see it actually post.  So I resent it.

Personally, I use the --honorcutlist to split music videos into separate 
files.  Before I figured out how to get --honorcutlist to work, I had to 
mark the videos one at a time, run the mythtranscode, mark the next one, 
etc.  Now I mark the whole file, getcutlist, edit the list, and then 
send the pieces I want through a loop in a script to split into the 
separate files.  After some more scripts, I have video and mp3 files for 
my iPod.

I couldn't initially get the --honorcutlist to work because of having to 
replace the commas with spaces.  I thought it might be same issue for 
this person.  It was very confusing to find the right format for the 
cutlist as were no error messages or examples of the exact format needed 
in a help file.  I had found it from someone else's posting.

John