[mythtv-users] lossless_cut.py and MythTV v31

[Roland Ernst]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 10:35 AM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 16:02:15 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >I had been using the lossless_cut python scripts to cut commercials out of
> >my H264 recordings for some time with MythTV v30 under Ubuntu 16 from the
> >mythbuntu repos.
> >
> >I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 18 and Mythtv v31, and I see that the
> >preference there is for python3. I see a couple of possible solution
> paths.
> >
> >1. Adapt the scripts to use Python3 and the respective MythTV bindings.
> >
> >2. Build the MythTV python bindings against python2 and get them installed
> >and used.
> >
> >3. Install a packaged version of the bindings built against python2.
> >
> >Has anyone taken any of these paths successfully?
> >
> >I haven't found any other free (as in beer) toolsets that let me cut
> >commercials out and preserve the subtitle tracks. So Windows or Linux
> >recommendations there are also welcome.
> >
> >Thank you all in advance.
> >-Ray
>
> The preference for Python 3 comes from MythTV v31, not from Ubuntu 18.
> It is apparently still possible to compile MythTV v31+ for Python 2
> but that option is unloved - it is not available in packages.  Ubuntu
> 18 has Python 2 as the system default if you have upgraded from an
> older Ubuntu.  I am not sure what it installs as a default on a clean
> install, but I suspect that is also Python 2.
>
> Since Python 2 is on life support at best, there is no option about
> having to upgrade to Python 3 at some point.  My recommendation would
> be to get it over with by doing it now.  I have updated all my MythTV
> Python programs to Python 3 with my v31 upgrade and found it was not
> too difficult.  But I was writing my Python 2 with Python 3 in mind
> (using the future library).  What I found was that after running the
> 2to3 conversion program and fixing the #! line, the things that were
> still needing fixing were all in the file I/O where you now need to
> explicitly choose whether you are reading the data as binary or as
> Unicode text.  Frequently, all that needed doing was to just add a 'b'
> character in the open() call to make the I/O binary and that fixed all
> the other consequential problems.  Note that I had already installed
> Python 3, so you will also need to do that first if it is not already
> installed.  I have also since upgraded to 20.04 where Python 3 is the
> default.
>
>
Maybe this forum post is of interest?
https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2955&p=14235
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