[mythtv-users] Issue with Exporting and Cutlist not observed

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed May 26 15:30:08 UTC 2010


On 26/05/10 14:14, Bernard Giannetti wrote:
>
>
>> I see this issue has now resurfaced as ticket 8495.  I'm a regular user
>> of MythArchive and I would suggest an approach that doesn't try to do
>> everything all at once - at least until you have reached some
>> familiarity with how it works.  I don't know what your recording format
>> is, either.  But have you tried transcoding with the cutlist outside
>> mytharchive?  It doesn't sound like it - playback when a cutlist exists
>> will use it.  If and when you have the recording as you want it try
>> MythArchive again, and create an iso image that you can test before
>> trying to burn the DVD.  Then I use k3b to burn-and-verify.  Things may
>> still go wrong, but at least you may have made progress and won't be in
>> the all too familiar ' MythArchive failed with error 6' situation.
>>
>> John P
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> I'm not trying to record/burn to a DVD.  I want to take a single recording, create the cutlist (which I've done and verified when I view the recording in MythTV) and then export, whilst retaining the cutlist.
>
> Have I misunderstood the capability of MythArchive?  Will MythArchive take a recording and cutlist and write out a file that is smaller (with the cutlist bits removed)?  All I seem to get is the original sized recording as MPG, a PNG file and and XML file.
>
I think so: MythArchive is mainly for transferring recordings to DVD, 
either as a standard DVD with 'navigation' facilities or to carry the 
recording and metadata for later re-import to MythTV.  In the latter 
case I think that the recording, cutlist etc _are_ just transferred 
without processing.

> Don't know how to transcode outside of MythTV at all.  If I can use a command line version to create my reduced/trimmed recordings that would be great!
>   		 	   		
It sounds as if you want to apply the cutlist  and then move the 
recording outside the MythTV box.  What you need is Mythtranscode.  You 
can run that from the frontend > Watch recordings >  M > Job Options >
Begin Transcoding.  Or you can hit X while playing the recording.  Watch 
the backend log to see progress.  You may need to set up options first, 
in Frontend > setup > setup > TV settings > Recording profiles > 
transcoders. You probably want autodetect from MPEG2 > Lossless.

Or you can use the command line: see mythtranscode --help.

Good Luck!

John P



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