Hi ,<br>  <br>  I have n't got the options --nopercentage and --getskiplist available with mythcommflag.How to upgrade my myth to those options.<br>  <br>  Actually what my plan is that I want to schedule recordings and set a "user job" so that it will automatically remove commercials from recordings so that I can watch them afterwards I don't wanna do that from frontend and even I don't want any manual intervention in doing so.<br>  <br> Yeah,I want to use that script ouside of myth and that to as user job.Whenever I try mythcommflag it showing file not found in database,though it is recorded previously!<br> <br><br><b><i>jack snodgrass &lt;mrlinuxgroups@gmail.com&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On 9/16/06, datheh erygre <smarrt_v @yahoo.com=""> wrote:<br>&gt; Hi,<br>&gt;  got some issues with remopving commercials from my Myth recordings.I<br>&gt; downloaded the
 removecommercial script from HOWTO and saved that in<br>&gt; /etc/cron.daily/<br>&gt;   when I tested that in my myth recording it shown me the following output<br>&gt; and coming out of the loop....<br>&gt;  linux:/etc/cron.daily # sh removecommercial /mnt/store/exorcist.mpg<br>&gt;  Usage: removecommercial <VideoDirectory> <FileName><br>&gt;  linux:/etc/cron.daily #<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  Then I tried executing the commands in the script manual to found out the<br>&gt; error.<br>&gt;  when I run the command<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  linux:~ # mythcommflag --gencutlist -f<br>&gt; /mnt/store/1003_20060916124500.mpg<br>&gt;  2006-09-16 12:48:58.863 Using runtime prefix = /usr<br>&gt;  2006-09-16 12:48:58.881 New DB connection, total: 1<br>&gt;  2006-09-16 12:48:58.888 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:<br>&gt; localhost<br>&gt;  2006-09-16 12:48:58.894 New DB connection, total: 2<br>&gt;  linux:~ #<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  What does this mean?<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  Any one doing commercial
 removal successfully?If so please lemme know the<br>&gt; procedure they followed.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  My Build  :<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  on Suse 10.0 using rpms<br>&gt;  hauppauge pvr 150<br>&gt;  DVB -Zenega CD-1004S<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  Scanned the channels to composite 0.I am from India and haven't set the IR<br>&gt; blaster completely yet!I am working on that.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  Is this information enough?<br>&gt;  Lemme know if any further datails required.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  Jack.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;  ________________________________<br>&gt; Get your own web address for just $1.99/1st yr. We'll help. Yahoo! Small<br>&gt; Business.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; mythtv-users mailing list<br>&gt; mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>&gt; http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br><br>I have a script that does this:  ... assuming the file I pass it
 is<br>/mnt/store/1014_20060913190000.mpg<br><br>mythcommflag  -c 1014  -s 20060913190000  --nopercentage<br>mythcommflag  -c 1014  -s 20060913190000  --gencutlist<br>mythtranscode -c 1014  -s 20060913190000  --honorcutlist --mpeg2<br>mv -f /mnt/store/1014_20060913190000.mpg /mnt/store/1014_20060913190000.mpg.orig<br>mv -f /mnt/store/1014_20060913190000.mpg.tmp /mnt/store/1014_20060913190000.mpg<br><br>.... looks like your running --gencutlist first that assumes a you've<br>got a commerical cut list. If you don't it won't do anything. You can<br>run<br>mythcommflag --getskiplist -f /path/to/file<br>to see if there is a commercial list already generated.<br>I get:<br>mythcommflag  --getskiplist -f /mnt/store/1014_20060913190000.mpg<br>2006-09-16 06:17:30.101 Using runtime prefix = /tmp/mythtv-install<br>2006-09-16 06:17:30.238 New DB connection, total: 1<br>2006-09-16 06:17:30.248 New DB connection, total: 2<br>Commercial Skip
 List:<br>1-3776,20242-29901,56715-70644,89872-102481,148963-160636,207775-214574<br>when I run it.<br><br>the last myth command I run in my script uses the cut list to do a<br>loss-less re-encode but it removes the commericals from the data.<br><br>jack<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></FileName></VideoDirectory></smarrt_v></blockquote><br><p>&#32;
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