[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip and seek table in leanfront

[John Pilkington]

On 15/10/2022 11:26, James Abernathy wrote:
> So I can test this out, I think I need a better understanding of the 
> cut/skip list.
> 
> If I take a recording that had the commercial flagging set to ON, then I 
> use mythutil to look at the skiplist and cutlist, I see the following:
> jim at Office-PC:~$ mythutil --getskiplist --chanid 16205 --starttime 
> 20221015000000 -q
> Commercial Skip List: 
> 10144-14708,42191-45823,60263-67063,83399-88073,104851-108999
> jim at Office-PC:~$ mythutil --getcutlist --chanid 16205 --starttime 
> 20221015000000 -q
> Cutlist:
> jim at Office-PC:~$
> 
> So the commercial flagging generates a Skip List and stores that in the 
> database.  The cutlist is generated when I use the mythfrontend edit 
> feature and using the menu, load the flagged commercials, fix them 
> manually and then save that to a cut list.
> 
> Do I understand this correctly?


That's what I understand.  The frontend setup under TV Editing also has 
LOADCOMMSKIP (Z) which copies the skiplist to the cutlist.  I don't know 
of a reverse option, but mythutil --getcutlist followed by --setskiplist 
ought to do it.
> 
> Jim A