[mythtv-users] mythtrascode --inversecut

[John Pilkington]

On 20/02/17 23:57, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>
>
> On 18 February 2017 at 03:24, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net
> <mailto:J.Pilk at tesco.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 17/02/17 16:26, Mike Perkins wrote:
>
>         On 17/02/17 12:52, John Pilkington wrote:
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>             On 17/02/17 01:52, Anthony Giggins wrote:
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>                 Is anyone successfully using this option?
>
>                 When ever I specify --inversecut the transcode fails
>
>                 This Works
>                 mythtranscode --infile
>                 /storage2/recordings/4093_20160403201000.mpg
>                 --mpeg2 --honorcutlist "18778 35040" --outfile
>                 "/storage2/recordings/test2.mp <http://test2.mp>g"
>
>                 This Fails
>                 mythtranscode --infile
>                 /storage2/recordings/4093_20160403201000.mpg
>                 --mpeg2 --inversecut --honorcutlist "18778 35040" --outfile
>                 "/storage2/recordings/test2.mp <http://test2.mp>g"
>
>
>             It's a long time since I used mythtranscode, and I don't
>             think I've
>             ever used it with the cutlist
>             defined like that on the control line  - but perhaps " 0
>             18778 35040 "
>             would do what you want.
>
>         I think I would give the two output files different names, too.
>         I'm not
>         sure if mythtranscode deletes any existing files before creating
>         a new
>         one, but different names will help avoid confusion.
>
>
>     I don't know how the command line is parsed, but it could perhaps be
>     inverting the cutlist before it has one.   Does '--honorcutlist " mm
>     nn" --inversecut'...  work?
>
>     John P
>
>
> OK I found the Secret Sauce
> mythtranscode --infile
> /storage2/recordings/4093_20160403201000.mpg --mpeg2 --honorcutlist
> "18778-35040" --outfile "/storage2/recordings/test2.mp <http://test2.mp>g"
>
> mythtranscode --infile
> /storage2/recordings/4093_20160403201000.mpg --mpeg2 --honorcutlist
> "18778-35040" --inversecut --outfile "/storage2/recordings/test3.mp
> <http://test3.mp>g"
>
> looks like it requires the dash between the external cutlist I thought
> from what I read it needed to be a space.
>
> Thanks everyone for the suggestions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anthony

Glad you got it going.  FWIW here's a section of a recent mythDVBcut log 
file.  Looks as if I thought mythutil --setcutlist needed commas too.

chanid 1003   starttime 2017-02-19 20:58:00  recordedid 12844
Reformatted starttime 20170219205800
Running: mythutil --getcutlist --chanid 1003 --starttime 20170219205800 -q
Cutlist: 0-5520,5700-6124,22264-28684,45517-51933,66187-72636,94206-98946

If you want to reset this cutlist, after restoring the .old file
and resetting the DB with mythcommflag --rebuild, you could try:

mythutil --setcutlist 
0-5520,5700-6124,22264-28684,45517-51933,66187-72636,94206-98946 
--chanid  1003 --starttime 20170219205800

-but seektables from different tools have differed in the past :-)

Cutframe list from editor:
   0 5520 5700 6124 22264 28684 45517 51933 66187 72636 94206 98946

Passframe (reversed cutframe) list from editor:
5520 5700 6124 22264 28684 45517 51933 66187 72636 94206 98946

Active keyframe passlist via DB.  First is a cut-in:
5519 5699 6123 22263 28683 45516 51932 66186 72635 94205

John