[mythtv-users] Some of my recordings have cutlists that I didn't generate

[Ian Evans]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Mike Perkins
> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
>> On 16/11/12 05:12, Ian Evans wrote:
>>>
>>> Mentioned this in a lossless_cut thread but tonight I noticed that a
>>> few of my recordings (2 out of 5) had cutlists. Looked back and my
>>> wife's recordings of Dr. Oz for the last few days had cutlists too.
>>>
>>> The strange thing: neither of us made the cutlists. The missus doesn't
>>> even know how to do them yet.
>>>
>>> The only post-processing we do is commercial flagging and
>>> lossless_cut's keyframe adjust.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else had ghosts making cutlists for them in the last few
>>> days? Is there a specific log I can look at to see how the heck this
>>> is happening.
>>>
>>> Been running myth since April 2011 and this has only happened over the
>>> last few days.
>>>
>> Would that be the commercial flagging? After all, you wanted to cut the
>> commercials out, right?
>
> Mike, it wasn't the commercial flagging, which just flags the
> commercials. We don't have the auto-skip set.
>
> This was actually creating a cutlist (the cutlist indicator came on in
> our theme, Tinted Glass) and playback was actually missing parts of
> the show due to errors in the commercial flagging.
>
> I've narrowed it down to recording rules that were running
> Lossless_Cut's Adjust_Keyframe's script. When I ran the keyframe
> script on a recording without a cutlist it then got one. I'm pretty
> sure this did not occur in an earlier version of the script from a few
> days ago. I'll contact the developer.

Okay, just noticed this lil' tidbit on the lossless_cut wiki page:

"Beta test status update (Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:46):
v0.1.8 Added small feature:
KeyFrame Adjust now automatically generates a cut list when it is
empty and there is a skip list. Saves the manually effort of loading
the skip list through the MythTV edit UI."

Don't think I'm a fan of this addition. Would be if commercial
flagging was 100% accurate.