[mythtv-users] commflagging and cutlists

[Yan Seiner]

I guess I am confused about commflagging.  I always assumed that 
commflagging and cutlists went hand in hand...  However, I am playing 
with commflagging and I am coming up with some weird results that tell 
me I have no idea how commflagging works.

First off the standard myth commflag job as run by myth:

/usr/bin/mythcommflag -j 31 --noprogress --verbose general --loglevel 
info --quiet --syslog local7

This takes a while; on my system it rolls through at 3-4x the speed of 
the video, so a 2 hour video takes about a half an hour to flag.

But to generate a commercial cutlist this is the command I've seen:

mythcommflag: /usr/bin/mythcommflag --chanid 1132 --starttime 
20140117230000 --gencutlist

It's very fast, takes just a minute or two, and seems to flag 
commercials.  it also generates the following warning:

****************************************************
  WARNING: --gencutlist has been deprecated
           use mythutil instead
****************************************************

So I've tried this:

mythutil --chanid "$chanid" --starttime "$starttime" --gencutlist

which also works quickly and generates a cutlist.

So what is the correct procedure?  Do I run the first commflag job, then 
the mythutil cutlist job?