I'm still pretty new to MythTV and Knoppmyth, but I have been checking out some of the optioins and was looking for some more insight. The current topic of interest for me is one of the default jobs on Knoppmyth called "Transcode to Xvid". It runs if I remember correctly. First of all, it outputs some pretty nasty filenames (based on time & date recorded). I have found out how to fix that here:
http://www.mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewto ... =myt2xvid3

Now I am curious as to what the option does. From the code, it appears that if you set it, then it will remove your cutlist and create a new one from mythcommflag. Does that mean that if you want to setup your own cutlist (or not cut out commercials) that you would not use the -cut option? I ask because, obviously, commflagging isn't always perfect. I have setup a job that will import my commflagging into the cutlist. Then I edit that to my liking.

I just thought since there is so little documentation on this particular script that I would check if anyone knows the answer. If not, I will find out over the next several days and let you know.

The -cut option seems to be telling the script to use your cut list.

ime, if you run the script automatically after a commflagging it ignores your comflags as that is not a cut list.

If you edit the capture commflags, you generate the cut list. That would then be used with the script to remove the commercials or identified portions from the capture while it is creating the xvid.

I usually clean up the Commflag/Cutlist by editing it and setting it on the key frames of the capture. Then when I run the script it automatically removes the unwanted portions as it generates the xvid.

As always Search is your friend, there are a couple of good posts in here on Editing the Cutlists - tjc wrote a good one, and so did someone else, can't remember who.


the Knoppmythwiki had an article on Editing cutlists as well.
Here it is [url]http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=VideoEditHowTo
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Also the mythtv docs had a little on cutlists,

Sorry I can't help more right now, but the resources are out there

Thanks I have read the posts on the cutlists and I understand them, but I don't think that the myt2xvid3 script works as you explained. It is set to use a cutlist regardless of user options: This line initializes $cut to 0.

Then he sends it the option you input here:

Then it simply clears the cutlist if $cut is 1

Again, after that it generates a new cutlist from your commercial flagging:

It seems obvious in the code that it is meant to encode using a cutlist. If you use the option "-cut" it should clear the existing cutlist and create a new one from the flagged commercials. Unfortunately, though, when I ran it without the "-cut" option, it still seemed to clear my cutlist and encode the entire recording. I will admit that I was doing this late last night, so I may have screwed up and accidentally cleared the cutlist myself, but I don't remember doing it.

I will run some further tests tonight and let you know the results.

Here is my experience using the included myt2xvd3 script

Setup 1)Show is captured, Commercials were flagged only.

A) Run myt2xvid3 with no options, it will encode the entire show with commercials intact exactly as it was captured.

B) Run myt2xvid3 -cut it will encode the entire show with Commercials intact exactly as captured.

Setup 2)Capture Show, Run Commflag and then Edit/Generate Cutlist

A) Run myt2xvid3 with no options, show will be encoded with commercials removed at the exact cutlist points.

B) Run myt2xvid3 -cut it will encode the show however it ignores the cutlist and encodes commercials as well like 1 B above.
I believe this is because you are running the -cut option twice making it redundant.

I too read the options.
The biggest thing I do not see it generate the cutlist as the script talks too.

So my experience is similar to what you found in your tests last night.

Ok, I must have accidentally cleared the cutlist last night, because it is working how I expected tonight. If I want to use my own cutlist, I leave the "-cut" off of the options. If I want to use the flagged commercials for a cutlist, I add the "-cut" to the options. Now that I have cleared this up, I would like to see if I can take it to the next level.

Proposal: When using the "-cut" option, auto-detect whether there is a cutlist or not. If there is a cutlist, use it. If not, create a cutlist from mythcommflag and use it, then clear the cutlist after transcoding is complete. If the "-cut" option is not used, then transcode file in its entirety.

I have edited the script to this effect, but have not yet tested it. I will post my changes if it works.

Ok, I've edited the script so that when the "-cut" option is entered, it will use your cutlist if it exists. If not, it will create a cutlist from your commercial flags, and then remove that cutlist when it is through.

What is tripping me up is telling the transcoder not to use a cutlist when "-cut" is not present. It appears that nuvexport tries to use your cutlist regardless of what options you pass. I have remoted the "--cutlist" option from the script and it continues to use it. I went into /etc/nuvexportrc and commented out the line. I have even tried to add an option to the myt2xvid3 script to no avail.

I would like a command to tell nuvexport to ignore the cutlist. Is this possible without actually clearing the cutlist that is already present?

Not sure if I miss the point here, but if I were you I would *always* go into the actual show and check what the commflagging has come up with and generate a cutlist from the result before exporting. Thus, changing the "-cut" setting would not feel relevant at all to me.

Mythcommflag does a decent job, but some shows are too difficult for it. Especially shows with night scenes can trigger false cuts.

Cheers,
/Chris

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I had to go in and change another file in order to make this work. This is how my Transcode to XVID job now works.

If you use the command one of two things will happen:

1. If there is no cutlist, it will create a cutlist using mythcommflag, transcode the video to xvid and then remove the cutlist.
2. If there is a cutlist, it will use the cutlist when transcoding the video to xvid.

If you use the command it will transcode the video to xvid and totally ignore any commercial flagging and cutlists.

No matter which method you choose, your cutlist will be the same before transcoding as it is after.

Below are the changes that I made to /usr/local/bin/myt2xvid3. Be sure to backup your original file before making any changes. I am showing you the line before and after the code I edited/added so you can see where to add it.









I also had to change /etc/nuvexportrc. I had to change this line:

to:
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