I've googled a fair bit, and I don't see a good solution to my problem. My myth box is inconvenient to access physically -- it's upstairs in a storage room, and my kid I have to keep an eye on while my wife is cooking has to stay downstairs.

I'd like to edit my cutlists so I can start transcoding without walking upstairs. Problem is, all my other boxes run WinXP (for the games ). VNC-ing to my x11vnc server shows the Mythfrontend interface, but not the video when I try to edit it -- it's just a black screen.

So, my goal is to edit custlists on Windows... somehow. Maybe I can tweak the Linux box to display back the video overlay over VNC (albeit at a reduced framerate -- not a problem for editing). Maybe there's a different remote-connection tool I'm not aware of that does display the video. Maybe there's a Windows program to edit the cutlists directly. Maybe there's another way I haven't thought of. Any solution you have, I'd love to hear.

How do you playback all that content on your TV now?

If you setup a separate Myth Frontend elsewhere then you could edit the commercials, transcode etc from that location.

You could also Load a live frontend from one of your other machines and do it there as well.

You would need to configure it but there are multiple posts around here about that.

I set up a samba share and play them over the network using various Windows media players (mostly media player classic).

It would be a pretty big pain to have to reboot to do cutlist editing -- I'm holding out for a simple application. I think I read somewhere that somebody had done cutlist editing over VNC (maybe from a Mac?) and I'm hoping for that sort of thing

I've actually thought of writing my own, but I just don't have the time right now. It should be pretty simple, right? I mean, query the commflag values, edit them, write back the cutlist values, easy-peasy. I think.

Anyway, until that time comes I'd like some kind of NATIVE Windows (or remoting) solution, if such a thing exists.

I use RealVNC when in Windows, and whatever VNC viewer comes with Ubuntu, (although I usually use a proper Myth front end in Ubuntu.) I actually get the video over the VNC connection. It is as you say, laughable frame rates, but workable in edit mode.

I was pretty firmly in the "Linux isn't ready for the desktop" camp until I tried an Ubuntu live disk several months back. The new 7.10 release is even better and sets the bar for how a version upgrade should be done.

On the other side; I've read about people getting versions of KM running in VM Ware; as I recall there are some issues with tuners, and playback frame rates, but again, it may be perfectly acceptable for cut point editing.

Now there's a thought -- KM frontend livecd in VMWare! I'll have to make that a project for the weekend.

Until then... can I ask what settings you're using for your VNC? What Windows client is it? What server is running on the KM box? Any special settings? Xorg driver tweaking? That's really what I was getting at. For reference, I'm running TightVNC connecting to x11vnc, and I don't think I've done anything special with the settings on either end.

Ghengis,
Are you using Xvmc on the server? (IIRC) Because it uses the video card to decode the video it can't be captured by VNC.

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Instructions are on the wiki

I used to be able to play (poorly) video through VNC using UltraVNC as the client in windows. I don't know what happened to break it, it may have either been me (foolishly) running 'apt-get upgrade' or maybe swapping out my 6200 series nVidia card for a 5200 card. (Figured my headless box didn't need the better card.)

It doesn't do it yet, but there are plans for MythTvPlayer to edit cutlists sometime in the future.

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I'm wondering: would it be possible to make a dedicated cutlist editor using only command line tools? That is, is there a commonly-used tool that generates a static image from a movie at a specified time offset? I was thinking it would be really easy to use such a tool to generate a grid of stills to show where cutpoints are, then allow updates to the list, and re-generate the grid. The only part I don't already know how to do is the programmatic frame-grabbing...