<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 9 Jun 2023, at 8:56 pm, Lists <<a href="mailto:lists@the-pearsons.co.uk" class="">lists@the-pearsons.co.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Thanks John,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Your mythffmpeg command line seems to do the trick - I can now cut the adverts form my recordings and rebuild the seektable after the transcode.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">I've been modifying Jay Harbeston's </span>ffcut.sh script, since when I first tried it, it didn't work at all with my h264 recordings - I also had to modify his sql commands, since they didn't work for me (as the user I ran the script as, in testing, does not have a mysql account), then I had to modify the ffmpeg commands for h264. My final task, since someone suggested that it isn't a good idea to directly modify the sql database from these scripts will be to use mythutil and mythcommflag in place of the sql commands.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">I'll be happy to share my version of the script, so long as Jay has no objections (I'll make sure I'll credit him in the script for the 99% of the work he did)</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Regards,</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Dave.</span></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Dave I've got and you're welcome to if you like, an h264cut.sh. Someone here tried it and had problems, but for me it has worked flawlessly for years.</div><div class="">I transcode to a .ts container as I host the odd snippet (*) and .ts lets shotcut run without lip-sync problems. I use shotcut to move (no pun) the mov atom to the head to allow you to watch in a browser.</div><div class="">James</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">* <a href="https://tigger.ws/downloads/qna.mp4" class="">https://tigger.ws/downloads/qna.mp4</a></div></body></html>