[mythtv-users] Recordings to DVD

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 12 February 2004 08:58, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> Greg wrote:
> > J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> >> Greg wrote:
> >>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> >>>> Thomas Börkel wrote:
> >>>>> HI!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
> >>>>>>> Is there some way to automatically master recordings (done in
> >>>>>>> MPEG2) to DVD? Possibly with generated menus? I know, there
> >>>>>>> is a plugin for VDR which does this, but I don't know about
> >>>>>>> MythTV.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I've been looking at doing it but have kind of put it on hold
> >>>>>> till the MPEG2 to MPEG2 commercial cut code is up to snuff.  I
> >>>>>> don't see much
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What exactly is broken there? Is there a time frame when it
> >>>>> will be fixed?
> >>>>
> >>>> Video artifacts, and audio sync issues following cutpoints come
> >>>> to mind.  I believe I saw that someone was working on it.  The
> >>>> original author is pressed for time right now so if he has to
> >>>> fix it it'll be months from now.
> >>>>
> >>>> Personally, I'm less and less interested in archiving to video
> >>>> DVDs and more interested in archiving MPEG4 content to backup
> >>>> DVDs so I can fit several shows on one disk.
> >>>
> >>> Would be nice if transcoding mpeg2 converted it to a portable
> >>> mpeg4, so that I could burning them on a CD/DVD if I decided to..
> >>> Mind you I can do that manually, so I guess if I need to bad
> >>> enough, just would be nice to have that built in...
> >>
> >> Myth has transcoded from MPEG2 to MPEG4 for quite some time now...
> >> MPlayer seems to play them fine.
> >
> > I've know that Myth has be able to transcode from MPEG2 to MPEG4
> > for a while now, but I am not able to play transcode files in
> > Mplayer. This morning I attempted to play a transcode MPEG4 file in
> > Mplayer and Xine to see if something changed, but I am still unable
> > to play the file. I remember the patch for Mplayer that allow
> > this.... If there is something I'm missing I'd sure like to know
> > it.... =_)
>
> Odd, I tried the same experiment earlier and had no issues...

How are you transcoding the files?  Inside of Myth (i.e., auto-transcode 
or press "X" during playback, using the transcoding profiles), or 
outside of Myth (using nuvexport or transcode)?  AFAIK, if you want to 
transcode to a portable/standard format, you need to use an external 
tool like transcode (if your original recordings are HW-generated MPEG) 
or nuvexport (for both HW- and SW-encoded Myth recordings).

-JAC