[mythtv-users] lossless_cut errors out

[John Pilkington]

On 03/10/14 18:38, rdvAndroid at gmail.com wrote:
> On 14-10-03 05:49 AM, Daniel Neher wrote:
>>
>> Is there a temp way to fix it for now?
>>
>> On Oct 3, 2014 3:22 AM, "John Pilkington" <J.Pilk at tesco.net
>> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 03/10/14 10:14, Daniel Neher wrote:
>>
>>         Hello all,
>>
>>         I'm trying to use lossless_cut to cut out commercials and drop
>>         the file
>>         that was cut into another directory. Every time I try to
>>         actually run it
>>         on a recording (with out the --test option) it errors.
>>         My command is as follows:
>>
>>         user at ubuntu:~$ lossless_cut -f
>>         /media/TV/1021_20141002000000.mpg -m
>>         /home/user/Downloads/
>>
>>
>>         MythTV.exceptions.MythDBError: MySQL error: not enough
>>         arguments for
>>         format string
>>
>>     I got the same error in MythArchive.
>>
>>     See https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/12268
>>
>>     That's been marked as a duplicate but TTBOMK it hasn't been fixed
>> yet.

> Dan,
>      I've looked at the patch supplied that is likely to fix this issue
> but am left with a few questions for the developer community.
>
> 1) Is ticket #12260 only an issue with MythTV v0.28-pre,  as I'm not
> having the problem with v0.27?

The problem with MythArchive did not affect 0.27.3.  I saw it as soon as 
I moved to master, and IIRC I reported it soon after. I assumed that a 
fix to python bindings would appear soonish and would fix the issue, 
both there and in your script.

> 2) Second should scripts that trigger this issue make a code change to
> find a recorded record via a "recordedid" instead of "chanid/starttime"?
> 3) Last if the answer is yes for #2 above, then is using "recordedid"
> backward compatible for the python bindings? Right now Lossless cut
> supports v0.24 to v0.27, I've never tried it with v0.28-pre.
> 4) Could the reporter of the issue "Dan" apply the patch attached to
> ticket #12260?
>
> I have not as of yet looked at the lossless cut code to see if there are
> any issues using "recordedid" so cannot say if there are any lingering
> ramifications.
>
> I'm looking for your input before making changes to working code.
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug