> > 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?
Because my wife's 70+ year old Grandmother in a nursing home with a VCR doesn't have a DVD player and probably wouldn't want one if I gave her one. :) Personally, I record everything at 352x480 (except the stuff coming off my air2pc card) so that I can just remux and burn to DVD if I feel like it. > 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. This is easy, probably a 20-30 line script to remux, run through dvdauthor, and burn. It's a whole lot easier when you encode at one of the DVD spec resolutions. I used to record at 480x480 so I could burn SVCDs, but now I use DVD resolution. > 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 had an itch and I scratched it. > I always figured the playlists were for the babysitting function. :-) Nope, that was the reason I put my patch in CVS, so others could use it for this, because I could have just kept it to myself. :) -- Chris
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