[mythtv-users] Batch cut list

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Marco Quezada <mellamanjefe at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have several kids recordings for shows from our local pbs station that I
> would like to edit. I have been recording them for a while and have noticed
> that there is a very reliable pattern for when the recording starts and ends
> and where the actual show starts and ends. So I would like to generate a cut
> list for each of these shows that trims a set number of seconds from the
> beginning and the end. I am not too concerned about precision, the trimmed
> recordings are going onto a dvd for the kids to watch during road trips.
>
> The recordings are run through the commercial flagging job but although it
> works really well for other stations, pbs leaves their logo on during some
> of their promos (they don't have commercials). So the commflag cut list is
> no good for me and because I have a fair amount of these shows, it takes me
> a long time to go through the editor and generate the cuts manually.
>
> Is there a way to call a command line process that you can give a range of
> frames or times to use to build a cut list for a recording?

You may want to look into "mythutil --getcutlist" to extract the cut
list for a program you've already edited by hand, and feed the output
into "mythutil --setcutlist" for all the other programs.

Jim