[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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