I'd wrongly assumed that it picked up the environment of the VDR already running, so hadn't supplied the switch in this case. Thanks for the clarification. On 16/06/2016 10:58, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > On 16.06.2016 11:44, Richard F wrote: >> Hi Klaus, >> >> I was trying the cutter for the first time and noticed that it didn't >> seem to be obeying the --video flag >> It seemed to be trying default, causing this error: >> >> Jun 16 09:12:56 ha-server vdr: [29658] ERROR (tools.c,459): >> /var/spool/video//mnt: Permission denied >> >> I rebuilt with the makefile adjusted to match my config and the >> cutter then worked. >> Is that a bug? > > Are you sure you entered the --video option *before* the --edit option > in your > command line? > > Klaus > > _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr