If not, I suppose I can just use dvdrip and then throw the AVIs in the mythtv directory, but it would be nice if I could rip and transcode from the myth interface and also get the benefit of a couple of additional PCs' horsepower. Then I could actually tell my older kids that when they want to watch a DVD that's not in the on-line library, they should rip and transcode it first.
On a related note, has anyone thought about how hard it would be to make a ripped but not-yet-transcoded VOB available for playing from the Media Library? I have verified that my machine can play the movie from the VOB while still transcoding (or even while still ripping!). Since my video card has hardware MPEG2 and my audio gets routed out to my digital receiver, the CPU load required to play a DVD is very low. It would be ideal if the kids could put a DVD in to "play" (because it's not in the library yet) and have myth ask them if it should be saved, and if so, start the rip/transcode process, wait a minute or so and then start playing the partially-ripped VOB (yes, I know that won't always work, depending on where the titles are in the stream, but it usually does, and modern DVD-ROM drives rip at much higher data rates than are needed to play). Then, when transcoding was complete, myth could delete the VOB and then put produced AVI in its place in the media library.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
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