[mythtv] Plugin idea MythCopy

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Tue Jan 16 21:29:36 UTC 2007


On Jan 16, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Willem Ligtenberg wrote:

> At this moment MythTV lacks the ability to easily copy CD's or DVD's.
> I want to start this project in order to develop a plugin which will
> be an easy to use interface to copy a cd or dvd. It should also
> display information about the status of the proces while copying the
> CD or DVD. The CD or DVD will first be copied to the HDD as an image
> and the image will then be transferred to an empty medium. After
> completion the user can choose to delete the image or burn it again.
> Basically this plugin should so straight forward that my mother can
> copy CD's or DVD's with it. The method for copying DVD's at this
> moment is importing it using mythvideo and then burn it using
> mytharchive. For CD's it is not possible. Also I want it to be just a
> one click action. (Or at least as few as possible)
> I am looking forward to your views on it. I will write the plugin
> anyway. Even if it will be an unofficial plugin, which might only be
> used by me...

You're talking about simply placing a CD/DVD in the try and  
duplicating it? koncd and xcdroast already do this very well so why  
not just add a menu from Myth to link to those?


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