[mythtv-users] User job always wants to re-run mythcommflag first

[scram69]

On Feb 9, 2008 9:52 PM, scram69 <scram69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Periodically, mostly with movies, I will "archive" a recording to my videos
> directory, running mythtranscode -l -m to do a lossless mpeg2 and remove the
> commercials per the cutlist.  Beforehand, I always go in via the frontend
> edit mode and check and maybe adjust the cutlist.
>
> I wanted to try and automate the process with a user job script.  However,
> when I go in through the recordings menu and select the user job, myth
> always wants to re-run mythcommflag before getting to my user job - in the
> process, undoing any of the manual edits I had done.  Is there a way to
> prevent this in order to run a custom transcode script?
>
> this is the script I am using (modified from one found on the wiki):
>
> #!/bin/sh
> VIDEODIR=$1
> FILENAME=$2
> CHANID=$3
> STARTTIME=`echo $4 | sed -e
> 's/\([0-9]\{4\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)\([0-9]\{2\}\)/\1-\2-\3-\4-\5/'`
>  TITLE=$5
>
> # Sanity checking, to make sure everything is in order.
> if [ -z "$VIDEODIR" -o -z "$FILENAME" ]; then
>         echo "Usage: $0 <VideoDirectory> <FileName>"
>          exit 5
> fi
> if [ ! -f "$VIDEODIR/$FILENAME" ]; then
>         echo "File does not exist: $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME"
>         exit 6
> fi
>
> mythtranscode --mpgeg2 --honorcutlist -c $CHANID -s $STARTTIME -o
> /var/lib/mythtv/videos/Kids/$TITLE.mpg
>  ERROR=$?
> if [ $ERROR -ne 0 ]; then
>         echo "Transcoding failed for ${FILENAME} with error $ERROR"
>         exit $ERROR
> fi
>         exit 0
>
>
> --
>
>

Nevermind.  Aparently, while mythranscode is happy to work with
"-mpeg2", it doesn't quite know what to do with "-mpgeg2".  Now the
script runs - the commflags must have been other jobs in the queue.