Zitat

Just one question: Do I have to uninstall the old version in any way before using the install file?

I am not sure about how ipkg is intended to be used in general, but in this specific case you need not uninstall it since all files are overwritten by the new ones.

Anders

(Oops, a small bug in the mcut program caused it to hang if no cuts were specified. Hopefully an unusual condition, but still. Sorry! New versions uploaded above.)

Anders

pbdreams wrote:

Zitat

Thank you for the great tool. I started today using mcut. It works really good. Unfortunately I have some older movies without the .ts.ap files. I deleted it for some reason. Without these files the mcut plugin doesn't work.

Do you have an idea how to reproduce these files? Or is there perhaps a workaround to get the mcut plugin working.

MovieCut needs the .ap file to calculate where to place the cuts. There is unfortunately no simple workaround.

(However, it should be theoretically possible to reconstruct the .ap file from the .ts file, although I don't know exactly how. Maybe there will be such a tool in the future.)

Best Regards
Anders Holst

Albert39 wrote:

Zitat

MCUT is working great for me but what I miss is the posibillity to start mcut from the menu

I hope that by "mcut" you mean the MovieCut plugin. "mcut" is the C++ program used by the plugin to do the real work. MovieCut-1.1 as well as the previous version MovieCut-1.0 install themselves next to the CutListEditor in the movie menu. Which version are you using? Have you restarted enigma2 since installing?

If anyone still use the mcut program directly from the shell, please update to the mcut program distributed with MovieCut-1.1, since this has much better cutting precision than the version distributed earlier. (Just install the plugin and the new program will overwrite the old one. The program "mcutarg" is obsolete and should be removed since suitable flags to mcut gives the same functionality. lscut and chcut has not changed and should still work if someone needs them, although they are not distributed with the plugin anymore.)

Best Regards
Anders Holst

This certainly seems like an annoying bug, but I am not able to reproduce it here.

Does it happen every time or just now and then?

To figure out where it hangs, I would need your help. I have attached a version of the plugin with some debug output. Could you please try this:
* Replace the old /usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/MovieCut/plugin.py with this one (which is called .txt to make it attachable, but it is just .py)
* Log in to a shell (with e.g. telnet or ssh)
* Stop the old enigma2 by giving the command "init 4"
* Start enigma2 again with the command "/bin/sh /usr/bin/enigma2.sh 2> /hdd/enigma2_logfile"
* Do the steps you usually do to cut a movie, and when it seems done (from e.g. the disk spinning down as you say) try to cut another one.
* Stop enigma2 either by "Restart GUI" from the menu, or Ctrl-C in the shell.
* If you managed to provoke the bug, send me the resulting log file /hdd/enigma2_logfile (per email, it is uninteresting for the forum). Otherwise you have to try again from the fourth point above.
* Restart enigma2 in normal mode again by the command "init 3"

Hopefully this logfile will show where it hangs.

Best Regards
Anders Holst

(Edit: OK, I'm aware of the skin changes, and this version do not take them into account, but just dont use the fourth alternative "advanced cut parameter settings"...)

janza wrote:

Zitat

I was wondering whether it would be possible to run mcut on (linux) PC?

Sure, I can send you the C++ code if you send me an email. (I can't send attachments through the board email facility, so this is the easiest way.)

However, on a linux PC with X11 as window system there are several alternative and more powerful tools to cut your movie. I think one is called "dvbcut", but there are probably many more out there.

Best Regards
Anders Holst

moveq wrote:

Zitat

This plugin is calling session.open() from __init__() and it makes it crash with a "modal mismatch" quite often...

Yor report is quite vague (no crash-log, no mention of whether it crashes in the beginning or end or at a certain dialog), and I don't manage to repeat the problem here, and I also see no potential problem with calling open at that place.

So I can only speculate: For example, the Suomipoeka plugin is known to have this destructive effect on some plugins (among them MovieCut), apparently because it tries to close the menu the plugin was started from, right after starting it. I have not followed up exactly what happens.

Anyway, a new version of MovieCut is on its way, adapted to recent enigma2 changes, and with some luck it will also solve your problem.

Best Regards
Anders Holst

I know there is a superfluous Screen class in the beginning, (one of the things removed in the next version), but that Screen is never used, and the openWithCallback that you pressumably refer to opens the initial Screen which is a ChoiceBox. Therefore I suspect that this is not the real reason for the crsh. Especially since it works here. If it were wrong it would probably crash every time and everywhere.

(Thanks for the report, all help to weed out bugs is of course appreciated. But if you want me to track this further I would really need a crash log... But I suggest you wait until the new version is out.)

Anders

There is a new version of MovieCut available.
* It is adapted to the skin changes of 2008-04-14.
* It includes the possibility to cut into another location, using the location changes of 2008-06-28 (in the 2.5 branch of Enigma2, which means that this branch is required).
* It uses eConsoleAppContainer instead of spawnv/waitpid to launch "mcut".
Hopefully this version solves both the problems experienced by moveq and by DLH007 and pucco.
Included below are ipk and tar.bz2 files. This version can also be downloaded from the plugin menu if you use the experimental feed.

Best Regards
Anders Holst