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norman at littletank

Jul 10, 2007, 10:29 AM

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removing commercials

I have 2 broadcasts to burn, consecutively, to a DVD. Both had the
commercials marked, as I have done many times before and 'Use Cut List'
was checked. The first video was fine but the second one still had the
commercials. Any suggestions please as to the reason and how to avoid
this happening again?

Norman

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drescherjm at gmail

Jul 10, 2007, 11:19 AM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

On 7/10/07, norman <norman[at]littletank.org> wrote:
>
> I have 2 broadcasts to burn, consecutively, to a DVD. Both had the
> commercials marked, as I have done many times before and 'Use Cut List'
> was checked. The first video was fine but the second one still had the
> commercials. Any suggestions please as to the reason and how to avoid
> this happening again?
>

Did you make a cut list? The default commercial flagging makes a skip list
that needs to be transfered to a cut list for the commercials to be cut. I
do this in the frontend with the E command while watching the video. I
believe when in the edit mode Home copys the skip list to the cut list.

John

mythtv at dsl

Jul 10, 2007, 12:41 PM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

norman wrote:
> I have 2 broadcasts to burn, consecutively, to a DVD. Both had the
> commercials marked, as I have done many times before and 'Use Cut List'
> was checked. The first video was fine but the second one still had the
> commercials. Any suggestions please as to the reason and how to avoid
> this happening again?
>
> Norman
>
>
>
Are you setting the 'Use Cut List' check box for each recording?

The cut list is applied per recording so you have to make sure that you
set 'Use Cut List' for each recording. You do that by selecting each
recording in the list on the 'Select Archive Items' screen and making
sure the 'Use Cut List' check box is checked. If the 'Use Cut List'
check box doesn't show for a recording then there is no cut list
available for that file and you will have to go back and edit the
recording to add the cut list.

You can check that you have set 'Use Cut List' for all the recordings
you have added to a DVD by looking on the last page of the wizard where
the 'Finish' button is located. The list of items to be recorded at the
top of that screen should have the check box checked below the pair of
scissors icon for all the items you want to remove commercials.

Paul H.

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Jul 10, 2007, 12:58 PM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

>From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm[at]gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users[at]mythtv.org>,
>norman[at]littletank.org
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] removing commercials
>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:19:37 -0400
>
>On 7/10/07, norman <norman[at]littletank.org> wrote:
>>
>>I have 2 broadcasts to burn, consecutively, to a DVD. Both had the
>>commercials marked, as I have done many times before and 'Use Cut List'
>>was checked. The first video was fine but the second one still had the
>>commercials. Any suggestions please as to the reason and how to avoid
>>this happening again?
>>
>
>Did you make a cut list? The default commercial flagging makes a skip list
>that needs to be transfered to a cut list for the commercials to be cut. I
>do this in the frontend with the E command while watching the video. I
>believe when in the edit mode Home copys the skip list to the cut list.
>
>John

I'm pretty sure 'Z' is what loads the commflags when in edit mode. I could
be wrong though.

Jake

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norman at littletank

Jul 10, 2007, 1:04 PM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

, snip >

> Are you setting the 'Use Cut List' check box for each recording?
>
> The cut list is applied per recording so you have to make sure that you
> set 'Use Cut List' for each recording. You do that by selecting each
> recording in the list on the 'Select Archive Items' screen and making
> sure the 'Use Cut List' check box is checked. If the 'Use Cut List'
> check box doesn't show for a recording then there is no cut list
> available for that file and you will have to go back and edit the
> recording to add the cut list.

Thank you, that's it. I did not realise that you had to check the use
cut list box for each recording. I thought that checking the box would
apply to all the recordings in the list. Now I know.
>
> You can check that you have set 'Use Cut List' for all the recordings
> you have added to a DVD by looking on the last page of the wizard where
> the 'Finish' button is located. The list of items to be recorded at the
> top of that screen should have the check box checked below the pair of
> scissors icon for all the items you want to remove commercials.

I wondered what that box was for now I know, thank you very much. Excuse
my ignorance but where do I find all the items for each screen explained
so that I can avoid doing silly things?

Norman

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Jul 10, 2007, 1:06 PM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

>
> I'm pretty sure 'Z' is what loads the commflags when in edit mode. I
> could
> be wrong though.
>

I believe Z does this as well. Now I think the key is also page up.

I know that that the following keys (insert, delete, home, end, page up and
page down) all do specific editing tasks as I use them a lot. It is
frustrating though when I accidentally hit the key that causes a reload of
the seek list as I loose all my changes...

John

mythtv at dsl

Jul 10, 2007, 2:47 PM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

norman wrote:
>> You can check that you have set 'Use Cut List' for all the recordings
>> you have added to a DVD by looking on the last page of the wizard where
>> the 'Finish' button is located. The list of items to be recorded at the
>> top of that screen should have the check box checked below the pair of
>> scissors icon for all the items you want to remove commercials.
>>
>
> I wondered what that box was for now I know, thank you very much. Excuse
> my ignorance but where do I find all the items for each screen explained
> so that I can avoid doing silly things?
>
> Norman
>
>

The problem is no developer likes writing documentation least of all me
:-) so there isn't really anything other than the wiki page at
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythArchive.

I think Myth would benefit from a context sensitive help system that
would allow you to press a key on each screen in Myth to get a popup
help screen detailing what each screen does. I wouldn't mind writing
something that does that but the problem is getting someone to write and
maintain the help documentation.

Paul H.

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norman at littletank

Jul 11, 2007, 12:59 AM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 22:47 +0100, Paul Harrison wrote:
> norman wrote:
> >> You can check that you have set 'Use Cut List' for all the recordings
> >> you have added to a DVD by looking on the last page of the wizard where
> >> the 'Finish' button is located. The list of items to be recorded at the
> >> top of that screen should have the check box checked below the pair of
> >> scissors icon for all the items you want to remove commercials.
> >>
> >
> > I wondered what that box was for now I know, thank you very much. Excuse
> > my ignorance but where do I find all the items for each screen explained
> > so that I can avoid doing silly things?
> >
> > Norman
> >
> >
>
> The problem is no developer likes writing documentation least of all me
> :-) so there isn't really anything other than the wiki page at
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythArchive.

Thanks, and I think I understand the dilemma. So, until some sort of
miracle occurs, I will continue ask questions here.
>
> I think Myth would benefit from a context sensitive help system that
> would allow you to press a key on each screen in Myth to get a popup
> help screen detailing what each screen does. I wouldn't mind writing
> something that does that but the problem is getting someone to write and
> maintain the help documentation.

That is a very good idea. However, it presupposes that there are those
who can not only write useful help data but also know what each screen
does.

Norman

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Jul 14, 2007, 11:55 PM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

On 7/11/07, norman <norman[at]littletank.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 22:47 +0100, Paul Harrison wrote:
> > norman wrote:
> > >> You can check that you have set 'Use Cut List' for all the
> recordings
> > >> you have added to a DVD by looking on the last page of the wizard
> where
> > >> the 'Finish' button is located. The list of items to be recorded at
> the
> > >> top of that screen should have the check box checked below the pair
> of
> > >> scissors icon for all the items you want to remove commercials.
> > >>
> > >
> > > I wondered what that box was for now I know, thank you very much.
> Excuse
> > > my ignorance but where do I find all the items for each screen
> explained
> > > so that I can avoid doing silly things?
> > >
> > > Norman
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The problem is no developer likes writing documentation least of all me
> > :-) so there isn't really anything other than the wiki page at
> > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythArchive.
>
> Thanks, and I think I understand the dilemma. So, until some sort of
> miracle occurs, I will continue ask questions here.
> >
> > I think Myth would benefit from a context sensitive help system that
> > would allow you to press a key on each screen in Myth to get a popup
> > help screen detailing what each screen does. I wouldn't mind writing
> > something that does that but the problem is getting someone to write and
> > maintain the help documentation.
>
> That is a very good idea. However, it presupposes that there are those
> who can not only write useful help data but also know what each screen
> does.
>
> Norman
>
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Hi
I am not sure if this should be a new thread, but I upgraded MythtTV and
now the editing bar that usually appeared when I press E , does not appear.
Likewise, when I press arrow up and down to increse/decrease the jump
interval, the jump interval changes, but I do not see the letters
specifiying the jump intervals

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norman at littletank

Jul 17, 2007, 2:37 AM

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removing commercials [In reply to]

I think I understand how to remove commercials and always use key frame
for cut points. In all cases removal is 100% with the exception of the
first commercial at the very start of the recording. When the cut
recording is replayed there is aways a very short flash of part of the
first commercial. Could this be because where the cut starts may not
coincide with a key frame? Is there any way of removing this very minor
irritant?

Norman

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Jul 17, 2007, 12:25 PM

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Re: removing commercials [In reply to]

On 07/17/2007 05:37 AM, norman wrote:
> I think I understand how to remove commercials and always use key frame
> for cut points. In all cases removal is 100% with the exception of the
> first commercial at the very start of the recording. When the cut
> recording is replayed there is aways a very short flash of part of the
> first commercial. Could this be because where the cut starts may not
> coincide with a key frame? Is there any way of removing this very minor
> irritant?

IIRC (and I don't feel like researching it), mythtranscode used to leave
the first frame of the recording regardless of cutpoint placement, but
the issue has been fixed (at least in SVN trunk), now. I'll leave
researching it up to you (and please feel free to let the list know how
far off I am).

Mike
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Nov 1, 2007, 7:15 PM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Did you find the place in either mythtv-setup or mythfrontend where it
> allows you to enable user jobs to run on a particular backend? I
> think it is in mythtv-setup.
>
> Kevin
>
>
Yeah, I found some settings in Mythtv-Setup to allow commercial flagging
(which I had selected) and checkboxes to allow each of the 4 user jobs
(which I didn't have selected). I turned on the User Job #1 box and
went into my recording, clicked the right arrow and told it to run the
job. It seemed to run for about 2 hours, and when I watched it, the
commercials were still in there. I had to FF thru them all. During
that 2 hour period, Mythweb said that the job was finished, but it never
actually removed anything.

So, I'm still in the same boat. :-)

Harry
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Nov 1, 2007, 8:06 PM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

On 11/1/07, Harry Devine <lifter89[at]comcast.net> wrote:
> Yeah, I found some settings in Mythtv-Setup to allow commercial flagging
> (which I had selected) and checkboxes to allow each of the 4 user jobs
> (which I didn't have selected). I turned on the User Job #1 box and
> went into my recording, clicked the right arrow and told it to run the
> job. It seemed to run for about 2 hours, and when I watched it, the
> commercials were still in there. I had to FF thru them all. During
> that 2 hour period, Mythweb said that the job was finished, but it never
> actually removed anything.

The script on the wiki uses the -i option to mythtranscode like this:
mythtranscode --honorcutlist --showprogress -i $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME -o
$VIDEODIR/$FILENAME.tmp

That doesn't work. Try using this instead:

mythtranscode --honorcutlist -c $CHANID -s $STARTTIME --showprogress
-o $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME.tmp

Apparently --honorcutlist doesn't work with -i.
You will need to pass chanid and starttime into the script.

CHANID=$3
STARTTIME=$4

And call it:

/usr/local/bin/RemoveCommercials %DIR% %FILE% %CHANID% %STARTTIME%

Hope that helps. Works for me now.
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Nov 2, 2007, 8:11 PM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Michael Rice wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Harry Devine <lifter89[at]comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I found some settings in Mythtv-Setup to allow commercial flagging
>> (which I had selected) and checkboxes to allow each of the 4 user jobs
>> (which I didn't have selected). I turned on the User Job #1 box and
>> went into my recording, clicked the right arrow and told it to run the
>> job. It seemed to run for about 2 hours, and when I watched it, the
>> commercials were still in there. I had to FF thru them all. During
>> that 2 hour period, Mythweb said that the job was finished, but it never
>> actually removed anything.
>>
>
> The script on the wiki uses the -i option to mythtranscode like this:
> mythtranscode --honorcutlist --showprogress -i $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME -o
> $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME.tmp
>
> That doesn't work. Try using this instead:
>
> mythtranscode --honorcutlist -c $CHANID -s $STARTTIME --showprogress
> -o $VIDEODIR/$FILENAME.tmp
>
> Apparently --honorcutlist doesn't work with -i.
> You will need to pass chanid and starttime into the script.
>
> CHANID=$3
> STARTTIME=$4
>
> And call it:
>
> /usr/local/bin/RemoveCommercials %DIR% %FILE% %CHANID% %STARTTIME%
>
> Hope that helps. Works for me now.
>
>
OK, I made that change to the script, and setup another recording last
night. I setup the recording job via Mythweb and told it to flag
commercials, and to run the Remove Commercials user job (formerly User
Job #1). I just checked the recording and the commercials are still in
there, so obviously, that didn't work either. Would there be any
information in the logs somewhere that I could look at?

Thanks,
Harry
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Nov 3, 2007, 12:05 AM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

On 11/2/07, Harry Devine <lifter89[at]comcast.net> wrote:
> OK, I made that change to the script, and setup another recording last
> night. I setup the recording job via Mythweb and told it to flag
> commercials, and to run the Remove Commercials user job (formerly User
> Job #1). I just checked the recording and the commercials are still in
> there, so obviously, that didn't work either. Would there be any
> information in the logs somewhere that I could look at?

The removecommercials script flags the commercials so you don't need
to run a separate job for that. Not sure if mythcommflag returns an
error if trying to reflag but if so that might explain why the script
exited early.

In any case you can check the Information Center/System Info/Log
Entries in the front end to see if your job ran and if it succeeded.
You can also check your mythbackend log. That is where you will find
the messages related to your job. You should see something like this:

2007-10-01 17:30:39.304 JobQueue: Started "Remove Commercials" for
"That '70s Show" recorded from channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00 2007
2007-10-01 17:30:39.315 jobqueue: Job "Remove Commercials" Started:
Started "Remove Commercials" for "That '70s Show" recorded from
channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00 2007
2007-10-01 17:30:40.280 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-10-01 17:30:40.460 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-10-01 17:30:40.511 mythcommflag version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
2007-10-01 17:30:40.512 Enabled verbose msgs: important

MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Mon Oct 1 17:30:40 2007
Flagging commercial breaks for:
ChanID Start Time Title Breaks
------ -------------- ----------------------------------------- ------
2007-10-01 17:30:40.525 New DB connection, total: 2
1053 20071001170000 That '70s Show 2007-10-01 17

...

Finished commercial break flagging at Mon Oct 1 17:32:48 2007
...
2007-10-01 17:32:48.967 Switching to MPEG-2 transcoder.
2007-10-01 17:32:49.068 Parser not found for Codec Id: 94210 !
Mux rate: 4.46 Mbit/s
2007-10-01 17:32:54.070 16.2% complete
2007-10-01 17:32:59.350 26.7% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:04.448 35.0% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:09.476 40.5% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:14.479 47.8% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:19.484 60.7% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:24.495 76.9% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:29.571 86.8% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:34.627 99.9% complete
2007-10-01 17:33:51.460 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-10-01 17:33:51.606 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-10-01 17:33:51.653 mythcommflag version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
2007-10-01 17:33:51.654 Enabled verbose msgs: important

MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Mon Oct 1 17:33:51 2007
Rebuilding SeekTable(s) for:
ChanID Start Time Title Status
------ -------------- ----------------------------------------- ------
2007-10-01 17:33:51.677 New DB connection, total: 2

...
2007-10-01 17:34:40.792 JobQueue: Finished "Remove Commercials" for
"That '70s Show" recorded from channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00
2007.
2007-10-01 17:34:40.863 jobqueue: Job "Remove Commercials" Finished:
Finished "Remove Commercials" for "That '70s Show" recorded from
channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00 2007.
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Nov 3, 2007, 6:23 AM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Michael Rice wrote:
> On 11/2/07, Harry Devine <lifter89[at]comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> OK, I made that change to the script, and setup another recording last
>> night. I setup the recording job via Mythweb and told it to flag
>> commercials, and to run the Remove Commercials user job (formerly User
>> Job #1). I just checked the recording and the commercials are still in
>> there, so obviously, that didn't work either. Would there be any
>> information in the logs somewhere that I could look at?
>>
>
> The removecommercials script flags the commercials so you don't need
> to run a separate job for that. Not sure if mythcommflag returns an
> error if trying to reflag but if so that might explain why the script
> exited early.
>
> In any case you can check the Information Center/System Info/Log
> Entries in the front end to see if your job ran and if it succeeded.
> You can also check your mythbackend log. That is where you will find
> the messages related to your job. You should see something like this:
>
> 2007-10-01 17:30:39.304 JobQueue: Started "Remove Commercials" for
> "That '70s Show" recorded from channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00 2007
> 2007-10-01 17:30:39.315 jobqueue: Job "Remove Commercials" Started:
> Started "Remove Commercials" for "That '70s Show" recorded from
> channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00 2007
> 2007-10-01 17:30:40.280 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2007-10-01 17:30:40.460 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2007-10-01 17:30:40.511 mythcommflag version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2007-10-01 17:30:40.512 Enabled verbose msgs: important
>
> MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Mon Oct 1 17:30:40 2007
> Flagging commercial breaks for:
> ChanID Start Time Title Breaks
> ------ -------------- ----------------------------------------- ------
> 2007-10-01 17:30:40.525 New DB connection, total: 2
> 1053 20071001170000 That '70s Show 2007-10-01 17
>
> ...
>
> Finished commercial break flagging at Mon Oct 1 17:32:48 2007
> ...
> 2007-10-01 17:32:48.967 Switching to MPEG-2 transcoder.
> 2007-10-01 17:32:49.068 Parser not found for Codec Id: 94210 !
> Mux rate: 4.46 Mbit/s
> 2007-10-01 17:32:54.070 16.2% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:32:59.350 26.7% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:04.448 35.0% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:09.476 40.5% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:14.479 47.8% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:19.484 60.7% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:24.495 76.9% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:29.571 86.8% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:34.627 99.9% complete
> 2007-10-01 17:33:51.460 Using runtime prefix = /usr
> 2007-10-01 17:33:51.606 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2007-10-01 17:33:51.653 mythcommflag version: 0.20.20070821-1 www.mythtv.org
> 2007-10-01 17:33:51.654 Enabled verbose msgs: important
>
> MythTV Commercial Flagger, started at Mon Oct 1 17:33:51 2007
> Rebuilding SeekTable(s) for:
> ChanID Start Time Title Status
> ------ -------------- ----------------------------------------- ------
> 2007-10-01 17:33:51.677 New DB connection, total: 2
>
> ...
> 2007-10-01 17:34:40.792 JobQueue: Finished "Remove Commercials" for
> "That '70s Show" recorded from channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00
> 2007.
> 2007-10-01 17:34:40.863 jobqueue: Job "Remove Commercials" Finished:
> Finished "Remove Commercials" for "That '70s Show" recorded from
> channel 1053 at Mon Oct 1 17:00:00 2007.
>
>
I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
"sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
interpreter: No such file or directory"

The file is there, and I double checked with Mythweb and it doesn't
appear to be a typo or anything like that. I checked via SSH and the
file is there and the permissions are 755, so I don't think that's it..
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Harry
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brian.phillips at gmx

Nov 3, 2007, 6:50 AM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Harry Devine wrote:
> I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
> "sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
> interpreter: No such file or directory"
>
> The file is there, and I double checked with Mythweb and it doesn't
> appear to be a typo or anything like that. I checked via SSH and the
> file is there and the permissions are 755, so I don't think that's
> it.. Any ideas?

Have you opened removecommercials in vim yet? Make sure the first line
doesn't have a ^M tacked onto it from uploading from windows machines.

Should look like this:
#!/bin/sh

And nothing more.

Brian

>
> Thanks,
> Harry
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lifter89 at comcast

Nov 3, 2007, 7:11 AM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Brian Phillips wrote:
> Harry Devine wrote:
>
>> I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
>> "sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
>> interpreter: No such file or directory"
>>
>> The file is there, and I double checked with Mythweb and it doesn't
>> appear to be a typo or anything like that. I checked via SSH and the
>> file is there and the permissions are 755, so I don't think that's
>> it.. Any ideas?
>>
>
> Have you opened removecommercials in vim yet? Make sure the first line
> doesn't have a ^M tacked onto it from uploading from windows machines.
>
> Should look like this:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> And nothing more.
>
> Brian
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Harry
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>
>
>
>
I just checked that and it looks just like you said. I didn't see any
^M in there anywhere. I can send it along if you want to look at it.

Thanks,
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mikerice1969 at gmail

Nov 3, 2007, 9:48 AM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

On 11/3/07, Harry Devine <lifter89[at]comcast.net> wrote:
> Brian Phillips wrote:
> > Harry Devine wrote:
> >
> >> I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
> >> "sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
> >> interpreter: No such file or directory"
> >>
> >> The file is there, and I double checked with Mythweb and it doesn't
> >> appear to be a typo or anything like that. I checked via SSH and the
> >> file is there and the permissions are 755, so I don't think that's
> >> it.. Any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > Have you opened removecommercials in vim yet? Make sure the first line
> > doesn't have a ^M tacked onto it from uploading from windows machines.
> >
> > Should look like this:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > And nothing more.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> Harry
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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I just checked that and it looks just like you said. I didn't see any
> ^M in there anywhere. I can send it along if you want to look at it.

Open in vim again and do this to make sure it is in the right format:

:set ff=unix
:wq

You can actually run this script outside of myth until you get it
working. Just pass the parameters on the command line.

If you want to email it to me I can compare it to mine.
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wondecla at tpg

Nov 3, 2007, 4:23 PM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:11:20 -0400
Harry Devine <lifter89[at]comcast.net> wrote:

> Brian Phillips wrote:
> > Harry Devine wrote:
> >
> >> I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
> >> "sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
> >> interpreter: No such file or directory"
> >>
> >> The file is there, and I double checked with Mythweb and it doesn't
> >> appear to be a typo or anything like that. I checked via SSH and the
> >> file is there and the permissions are 755, so I don't think that's
> >> it.. Any ideas?
> >>
> >
> > Have you opened removecommercials in vim yet? Make sure the first line
> > doesn't have a ^M tacked onto it from uploading from windows machines.
> >
> > Should look like this:
> > #!/bin/sh
> >
> > And nothing more.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >> Thanks,
> >> Harry

> I just checked that and it looks just like you said. I didn't see any
> ^M in there anywhere. I can send it along if you want to look at it.
>
> Thanks,
> Harry

does /bin/sh exist ?

You should have:
~$ ls -la /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-10-21 13:19 /bin/sh -> bash*

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viznut at charter

Nov 3, 2007, 5:47 PM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Harry Devine:
|I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
| "sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
|interpreter: No such file or directory"
...
|Any ideas?

Run this:

od -x /usr/local/bin/removecommercials | grep 0d

If this finds any "0d" (carriage return characters), you edited this file
with a DOS/Windows text editor. Run your favorite dos2unix tool on it, or
if you don't have one, this'll do:

tr -d "\015" < /usr/local/bin/removecommercials > /tmp/junk
mv /tmp/junk /usr/local/bin/removecommercials
chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/removecommercials

Randall
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lifter89 at comcast

Nov 3, 2007, 7:37 PM

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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Randall Hopper wrote:
> Harry Devine:
> |I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
> | "sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
> |interpreter: No such file or directory"
> ...
> |Any ideas?
>
> Run this:
>
> od -x /usr/local/bin/removecommercials | grep 0d
>
> If this finds any "0d" (carriage return characters), you edited this file
> with a DOS/Windows text editor. Run your favorite dos2unix tool on it, or
> if you don't have one, this'll do:
>
> tr -d "\015" < /usr/local/bin/removecommercials > /tmp/junk
> mv /tmp/junk /usr/local/bin/removecommercials
> chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/removecommercials
>
> Randall
>
>
I just tried this and it appears to have worked. I had copied the
original over to a temporary name. I did the tr command as you
suggested, then I ran the removecommercials script to test it. I got
the usage printout, so that's a good sign. Running the renamed,
original version gave me the original problem, so the file being in DOS
format seems to be what the trouble was.

Thanks to all of you who helped out on this.
Harry
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ve1jot at eastlink

Nov 4, 2007, 8:25 AM

Post #23 of 37 (993 views)
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Re: Removing commercials [In reply to]

Kevin Hayes wrote:

>On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:11:20 -0400
>Harry Devine <lifter89[at]comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Brian Phillips wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Harry Devine wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I checked my mythbackend.log, and got the following:
>>>> "sh: /usr/local/bin/removecommercials: /bin/sh^M: bad
>>>>interpreter: No such file or directory"
>>>>
>>>>The file is there, and I double checked with Mythweb and it doesn't
>>>>appear to be a typo or anything like that. I checked via SSH and the
>>>>file is there and the permissions are 755, so I don't think that's
>>>>it.. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Have you opened removecommercials in vim yet? Make sure the first line
>>>doesn't have a ^M tacked onto it from uploading from windows machines.
>>>
>>>Should look like this:
>>>#!/bin/sh
>>>
>>>And nothing more.
>>>
>>>Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Thanks,
>>>>Harry
>>>>
>>>>
>
>
>
>
>>I just checked that and it looks just like you said. I didn't see any
>>^M in there anywhere. I can send it along if you want to look at it.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Harry
>>
>>
>
>
>does /bin/sh exist ?
>
>You should have:
>~$ ls -la /bin/sh
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-10-21 13:19 /bin/sh -> bash*
>
>
>
Perhaps it's because dash is being used instead of bash? My ubuntu was
like that..
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Aug 7, 2008, 8:54 AM

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Re: Removing Commercials [In reply to]

2008/8/7 Rick Steeves <mythtv[at]corwyn.net>:
> I'm currently using the Hauptpage Media MVP to view my Myth shows. It
> doesn't seem to include any type of commercial skip. What i want is for the
> commercials to me automatically removed, and am willing to risk the
> commercial skip chopping out parts of my shows.
>
> I followed the instructions from the mythtv wiki for transcoding/removing
> commercials http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Removing_Commercials under
> "Automatically removing commercials" but the end result appears the same.
> (worht noting that the wiki references the user manual, which just
> references back to the wiki)
>
> I have tried both having the Job "Removing Commercials" as part of the
> recording, or running that job on the show after the recording. I don't
> appear to get the ".old" files referenced in the instructions.
>
> Any pointers on where to debug further?

The wiki merely mentions mythtv flagging commercials in the first
sentence, and then proceeds as though they have been flagged to talk
about removal. Thing is, I'm not sure myth necessarily flags the
commercials by default. Have you ensured that commercial flagging is
configured on your recording profile?

Cheers.

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mythtv at corwyn

Aug 7, 2008, 12:58 PM

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Re: Removing Commercials [In reply to]

They're definitely flagged - if I watch them from the front end the
commercials get skipped.

Rick

On 8/7/08, C.T. Paterson <i.adore.my.64[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2008/8/7 Rick Steeves <mythtv[at]corwyn.net>:
> > I'm currently using the Hauptpage Media MVP to view my Myth shows. It
> > doesn't seem to include any type of commercial skip. What i want is for
> the
> > commercials to me automatically removed, and am willing to risk the
> > commercial skip chopping out parts of my shows.
> >
> > I followed the instructions from the mythtv wiki for transcoding/removing
> > commercials http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Removing_Commercials
> under
> > "Automatically removing commercials" but the end result appears the same.
> > (worht noting that the wiki references the user manual, which just
> > references back to the wiki)
> >
> > I have tried both having the Job "Removing Commercials" as part of the
> > recording, or running that job on the show after the recording. I don't
> > appear to get the ".old" files referenced in the instructions.
> >
> > Any pointers on where to debug further?
>
> The wiki merely mentions mythtv flagging commercials in the first
> sentence, and then proceeds as though they have been flagged to talk
> about removal. Thing is, I'm not sure myth necessarily flags the
> commercials by default. Have you ensured that commercial flagging is
> configured on your recording profile?
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
> -- Thomas Paine
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