[mythtv-users] Issue with Exporting and Cutlist not observed

[John Pilkington]

On 25/05/10 23:20, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 06:08 PM, Bernard Giannetti wrote:
>>
>> > On the list showing the recording(s) if you select the recording it
>> > should show a scissor icon, press the menu key you should get a
>> > popup menu with the first item as cutlist, select that and the
>> > scissor icon should now be coloured showing the cutlist is now
>> > being honoured.
>>
>> On the Select Recordings screen, when I select/highlight the
>> recording I want, I see the scissors icon in the bottom left. If I
>> hit M (for menu) the only options I have are Clear All, Select All
>> and Cancel. To select the item I want, I hit space bar and a
>> tick/check appears to the right of the recording.
>>
>> On the Select Archive Items screen, my recording is sitting at the
>> top. I notice that in the section that shows a description of the
>> recording, the scissors icon is now absent. If I hit M the options I
>> get are Remove Item and Cancel. If I hit C (to toggle cutlist) no
>> change appears in the display or on the menu.
>>
>
>
> I think you're supposed to hit C in the first screen--where you see the
> scissors.
>
> Mike

I see this issue has now resurfaced as ticket 8495.  I'm a regular user 
of MythArchive and I would suggest an approach that doesn't try to do 
everything all at once - at least until you have reached some 
familiarity with how it works.  I don't know what your recording format 
is, either.  But have you tried transcoding with the cutlist outside 
mytharchive?  It doesn't sound like it - playback when a cutlist exists 
will use it.  If and when you have the recording as you want it try 
MythArchive again, and create an iso image that you can test before 
trying to burn the DVD.  Then I use k3b to burn-and-verify.  Things may 
still go wrong, but at least you may have made progress and won't be in 
the all too familiar ' MythArchive failed with error 6' situation.

John P