[mythtv-users] Commercial Skip and seek table in leanfront
John Pilkington
johnpilk222 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 15 22:25:02 UTC 2022
On 15/10/2022 21:15, George Bingham wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 2:59 PM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com
> <mailto:pb.mythtv at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> A quick test shows that in mythfrontend, if there is a cut list, the
> cut
> list is used for skipping and the comm skip data is ignored. Presumable
> if you are using comm skip you should first use the Z to load the
> detected commercials to the cut list before manually editing it.
>
> There seems no way to prevent the cut list being used in mythfrontend
> playback.
>
> I should be able to easily implement something in leanfront. I can
> expand the commercial skip menus to use commercial skip or cutlist,
> whichever is present, with cutlist taking precedence. It would not use
> the cut list unless you enabled the comm skip / cutlist.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I think that would be ideal. Would really make leanfront a preferred
> frontend for my chromecast devices if you were able to make it use the
> cut list over the skipllist. I didn't really know / understand the two
> terms until this thread.
>
> I was so excited that you were doing this with leanfront that I went
> ahead and updated to v32 ( I'd been meaning to for some time, but just
> hadn't gotten around to it). And I figured out how with a couple
> mythutil commands to replace the skiplist with the cutlist so that
> leanfront will have a corrected skiplist to work from. I figured I'd add
> a job to call on select recordings after editing the cutlist manually,
> but maybe I'll forgo that for now if you're planning on updating your
> new leanfront.
>
> FYI here's the mythutil commands to set your skiplist to equal your
> cutlist.. Obviously, you'd only want to do this on recordings you have
> manually edited.
>
> CUTLIST=`mythutil --quiet --chanid 26205 --starttime 20221015110000
> --getcutlist | cut -d : -f 2`
> mythutil --quiet --chanid 26205 --starttime 20221015110000 --setskiplist
> $CUTLIST
>
>
> Perhaps there's an easier way to do the above?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> George
>
I've used sed to do something similar if I want to tweak the edit points
and go round again. I just tried using it to write a skiplist for a new
mpeg2 recording having several adverts.
But at present, for me, Peter's 377 leanfront .apk doesn't appear to
take any notice of either list...
John P
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