[mythtv-users] Developers: Future of MythTV?
J. Donavan Stanley
jdonavan at gorpe.com
Mon Dec 8 20:07:33 EST 2003
James L. Paul wrote:
>IMO, I see little reason to do two types of disks. When I archive I always try
>to use an industry standard format to future-proof my discs as much as
>possible. I don't want to go through any hoops in 10 years to read my discs.
>:)
>
>
It's a simple matter of storage space. If you build a DVD player
compilant disk you'll be able to archive out about 2 hours of video per
DVD. If you instead write MPEG4 files to the disk you can fit more
hours on per disk.
>I suppose it's not realistic yet to archive MPEG4 in a standard readable
>format on plastic, but it certainly is for MPEG2. So for MPEG2 disks I'd
>recommend a standard DVD format. There's no reason you can't include MythTV
>metadata or whatever on a standard DVD. So you could play such disks on any
>standard DVD player, and if you popped them into a MythTV box it would read
>the metadata and have whatever extra functionality you want to include.
>
>
I'm not inventing a new format here. The only thing special about a
MythDVD would be that the existance of the meta data in a specific file
(think autorun.inf) that MythTV can then use to present the user with a
DVD-like menu. While it's true that this information COULD be stored on
a regular DVD, the whole point of the MythDVD is that you can pack more
video on a single disk if you give up comaptibility with DVD players
(i.e. MPEG4 instead of MPEG2).
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list