On Tue, 2005-15-02 at 19:53 -0600, M S wrote: > First off... this is not meant to be a flame war and let me say I LOVE > both the concept of MythTV as well as it's functionality. > > I think the biggest thing missing from MythTV is a built in function > for archiving shows to DVD. The closest thing I've come to is > MythBurn, and even for all it offers, it's still lacking some key > features such as: > > 1) True integration > 2) Lack of using cutlists (even though someone has wrote a patch to do > this, it isn't fullproof) > 3) Doesn't convert the mp2 audio into the DVD standard of AC3 audio > 4) Only supposidly works with MPEG2 clips (pvr-x50s) > 5) and more > > I have 176GB available for myth recordings and every day I'm having to > delete a show just to continue to use myth. I want to archive a large > percentage of my movies to DVD. Sure, people can say "run this > command line, then do this, then that... then burn." NO! This should > be an automated procedure with ease and simplicity and no commands > lines. It should be able to take a recording, use the cutlists to > remove commercials, build indexes, and make interactive menus. It > should also not involve having to do somethings on one machine, then > copying to finish off processing on another with the exception of > possibly saving an iso that can be burned on another machine which has > a burner.
I think on the amount of DVD's you'd go through, you would be better off adding drives to your system to increase storage. Say you can get 2 hours of video on a DVD. But it's packed on to the myth box and it's only 400M. I would rather have 500G of storage and then delete shows if I bought the boxed set, rather than archive everything off to DVD. I regularly download with bittorrent until I get a myth box running (which is this weekends project) but if I want to watch season one of Las Vegas, I buy it to watch. It's convenient to have the files on my hard drive, but the 15G they take up right now will be freed up when I get the box set. While I know a thing or three about burning in Linux, I have never created a video or movie disc on my box. I have been using Roxio and Winders for that, for no particular reason. I also know nothing about coding, but I am getting better at writing bash scripts. If it is possible to do it all that way, you could write a script that will automagically burn the dvd with the show you specify, but I don't know if everything can be done from the command line. I certainly know that you can write the ISO from the commandline, and even build an ISO from a directory of files, but I'm pretty green when it comes to video. At the very least, you could buy a commercial PVR, hook the myth output to the input on the PVR, re-record the show on the PVR and write it to disc. I know that's not the answer you are looking for, but it's as helpful as the way you've phrased your frustration about myth. -=/>Thom
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