[mythtv-users] mythtrascode --inversecut

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Feb 17 17:24:27 UTC 2017


On 17/02/17 16:26, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 17/02/17 12:52, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 17/02/17 01:52, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>> Is anyone successfully using this option?
>>>
>>> When ever I specify --inversecut the transcode fails
>>>
>>> This Works
>>> mythtranscode --infile /storage2/recordings/4093_20160403201000.mpg
>>> --mpeg2 --honorcutlist "18778 35040" --outfile
>>> "/storage2/recordings/test2.mpg"
>>>
>>> This Fails
>>> mythtranscode --infile /storage2/recordings/4093_20160403201000.mpg
>>> --mpeg2 --inversecut --honorcutlist "18778 35040" --outfile
>>> "/storage2/recordings/test2.mpg"
>>>
>>
>> It's a long time since I used mythtranscode, and I don't think I've
>> ever used it with the cutlist
>> defined like that on the control line  - but perhaps " 0 18778 35040 "
>> would do what you want.
>>
> I think I would give the two output files different names, too. I'm not
> sure if mythtranscode deletes any existing files before creating a new
> one, but different names will help avoid confusion.
>

I don't know how the command line is parsed, but it could perhaps be 
inverting the cutlist before it has one.   Does '--honorcutlist " mm nn" 
--inversecut'...  work?

John P


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