[mythtv-users] mytharchive problems after upgrading to 0.24.

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Fri Apr 8 20:58:23 UTC 2011


On 08/04/11 19:37, John Drescher wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:35 PM, John Pilkington<J.Pilk at tesco.net>  wrote:
>> On 07/04/11 02:46, John Drescher wrote:
>>>> I switched themes to Compact and got a DVD. The dvd was somehow a lot
>>>> smaller than expected but it looks like for some reason the cutlist is
>>>> inverted. I mean I got only the commercials instead if the program. I
>>>> guess the advertisers would be happy...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe this problem is the following bug:
>>>
>>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9389
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> Yes, that's it.  Apologies.  I should have mentioned it in the earlier
>> thread.  But the ticket isn't just a bug report; it includes a drop-in
>> replacement for use in 0.24 for the cutlist translator routine in
>> mythburn.py.
>
> Thanks. I got that to work after I figured out that the first SQL
> statement needed to be fixed with type=1 not the second.

No: the attachment on the ticket includes three sqlstatements.  The 
second has a typo, a missing = sign.  It's line 26.  Everything else, 
AFAIK, is OK.  I wasn't running 0.24 when I wrote it and couldn't test 
it.  And I recommend testing with a short recording first :-)  But have 
a good weekend anyway.

  However I
> only tried 1 recording and just watched that last night so I did not
> comment on its success or failure yet. I will try to get back to the
> other bug this weekend if possible (depending on what the wife has
> planned for me).
>
>>   I usually cut before entering MythArchive, using the same
>> logic in the mythcutprojectx script, but I have used the modified
>> internal version with success.  I'm afraid I don't know why the broken
>> version hasn't yet been dropped.  Maintainability ought to be better if
>> a new version was eventually based on mythcommflag --getcutlist instead
>> of addressing the db directly, but I kept as close as I could to the
>> existing code.
>>
>
> I used to do that for a few years on all recordings but now I am back
> to just cutting when archiving to dvd. I believe I did that because
> the builtin mythtranscode always created an AV sync problem but the
> external projectX did not.

It's certainly quicker to do it all as one process if you are confident 
that it's going to work.  In the past I really wasn't, so I took it one 
step at a time.  Maybe it's getting time to be bold and skip some of the 
intermediate write-and-readbacks.  I haven't had sync problems for some 
years; haven't transcoded with mythtranscode, either....

John P
>
> John
>



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