On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:41:37PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote: > > My sister makes the excellent point that if you're inclined to dump > > programs to tape, the playlist feature is probably going to be handy > > for that: cue 8 hours of programming, hit play, go to work. > > This was the exact reason that I wrote the playlist code. I got > tired of having to come back to Myth to start a new program playing > every 45 minutes while dubbing some episodes onto VHS tape. Now I > can create cutlists for a bunch, add them to the playlist, start > playing, and come back hours later with a full tape. Then, delete > them all with the press of a button.
Not that I don't think this is a fine ability to have when dumping to VHS tape, but the question that comes up in my mind is, why would you want to dump to VHS tape when blank DVDs are only about 30 cents? If you're just making the DVDs for yourself (to play on a computer like your mythbox) this is easy to do and faster to boot. If you want to make DVDs for others to play on dvd players, it is currently a bit more work. Of course if wanting to play the show somewhere there is no computer or DVD player is your goal, then dump to VHS is all that's left but it seems that should be a rare case. I always figured the playlists were for the babysitting function. :-)
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