>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/16/2005 10:26:59 AM >>> >On Tue, 2005-15-02 at 19:53 -0600, M S wrote:
<snippety snip> >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. Ok, great. How much easier is it to bring one of those little nylon totes on a trip with a portable DVD player, vs. your mythtv setup? I have a situation where I'll be on a bus with 40 high school kids for a minimum of 20 hours next week. The bus has a DVD player. I'd love to burn a bunch of the TV shows I've recorded (The OC, Adult Swim cartoons, Simpsons) out to DVDs, and carry them on to the bus in my little nylon pouch. Instead, I'm lugging only movies. Being able to mix it up with some TV shows that I know the kids like would be awesome. >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 agree there...but, I'd keep the shows on the myth box. >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. Not for me...I'd rip the DVDs and make them available for me in my family room where I don't have a DVD player, but I do have a mythtv frontend... <snipped irrelevant content> >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. If someone writes a burning script from scratch, you can build in any kind of menu development in the command line you want. >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. I'd rather give the money I would have spent on a commercial, non-expandable, closed source PVR to the developers here, in the community I enjoy being a part of. Paul
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