[mythtv-users] Cutlist editor and bookmarks in master

[John Pilkington]

On 03/08/15 15:07, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 10:16 AM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 02/08/15 17:48, Roger Siddons wrote:
>
>         On Sun, 02 Aug 2015 14:13:03 +0100, John Pilkington
>         <J.Pilk at tesco.net <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>>
>         wrote:
>
>           > Recordings that have been cut start frontend playback about
>         2 minutes
>           > in. I can jump back to the beginning but I haven't found a
>         way of
>           > clearing the delay; it doesn't seem to be a bookmark.
>         Playback via
>           > UPnP starts at the beginning.
>           >
>           > Anyone else seeing this - or have any ideas?
>           >
>
>         Could it be a MARK_UTIL_PROGSTART (40) or MARK_UTIL_LASTPLAYPOS (41)
>         from https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11713 ?
>
>
>     Yes, I think so.  It had occurred to me that 2 minutes is my
>     specified pre-roll, and my cutting script clears the cutlist, so
>     comment 11 applies.  I'll dig a bit deeper.  Thanks.  Do programmes
>     somewhere *really* start at the advertised time?
>
>
> Nice catch.  The PROGSTART mark is explicitly ignored when a cutlist is
> in place, but I didn't consider that as such, the mark should be cleared
> after transcoding.  (I assume transcoding always applies the cutlist if
> present.)
>
>     And, back to the original question - I do feel lost without the
>     cutlist editor cursor.
>
>
> See this commit, which only addressed subtitles but may be relevant here:
> https://code.mythtv.org/cgit/mythtv/commit/?id=eda5d2e2460d739ba9410c74f949b177865763f2
> Something changed in Qt5 such that a MythUI <shape> without a <line>
> element now ends up with an invisible 1-pixel border.  If the editor
> cursor is defined as 1 or 2 pixels wide, this is probably why it
> disappeared.  The workaround/fix is to add a <line> element with
> width="0" whose color and alpha are the same as the shape's fill
> color/alpha.  For example:
>
>              <shape name="position">
>                  <area>0,0,4,100%</area>
>                  <fill color="#FFFFFF" alpha="255" />
>              </shape>
>
> becomes this:
>
>              <shape name="position">
>                  <area>0,0,4,100%</area>
>                  <fill color="#FFFFFF" alpha="255" />
>                  <line color="#FFFFFF" alpha="255" width="0" />
>              </shape>
>
> For the cutlist editor, this would be applied in the theme's osd.xml in
> the editbar section, specifically the position, cuttoright, cuttoleft,
> keeptoright, and keeptoleft elements.
>
> Jim

Thank you, Jim. I made a backup copy of the original file and replaced 
it with an edited version. After restarting mythfrontend.real I see a 
cursor again while editing all types of recording.  Not sure if I really 
needed the restart.

/usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/osd.xml

John