On Jul 12, 2005, at 2:17 PM, flim wrote:
Your best bet would probably be to read the recent posts about
playing ISO files. You could make ISOs from your DVDs and play
them through Myth with a suitable player, such as MPlayer. As for
the menu options, it's a nice idea - I look forward to seeing your
plug-in! :-)
I've seen the recent DVD ISO files posts and they were what got me
thinking about this project, again. Several months ago I experimented
with a few different "import" ideas:
1) use vobcopy to import all DVD contents unencrypted
2) use lsdvd + dd to import the DVD as an ISO file (remains encrypted)
3) use dvdbackup to import the DVD (don't recall if it decrypts)
I never got around to taking my findings and putting them into a
script or any kind of MythTV plugin though. All three methods seemed
to work okay with some drawbacks:
Looking at dvdbackup it pretty much looks like a dead project. I
found some pointers to lxdvdrip which looks interesting but seems
focused to actually doing DVD -> DVD-R backups. Not something I'm
interested in.
vobcopy has more recent updates and appears to be under active
development still which is gt tood to see. I need to go back and
experiment with this more but I think I had issues getting a full
duplicate.
Using lsdvd to "unlock" the DVD and then dd to copy it to an ISO is
by far the easy solution. The downside is that because it is a bit
for bit copy this method will take up the most space. On the other
hand, having a bit for bit copy is nice when it comes to making a DVD
Jukebox and hard drives are cheap, right? :)
--
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AIM: BlueCame1
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