[mythtv-users] PVR-350 mpeg2 --> DVD burning. No commercial cutting or fancy stuff.

[stan]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:25:23AM -0600, Malcolm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can someone tell me how to burn one of the .nuv Myth recordings made from a
> PVR-350 to DVD or even SVCD.  I've been trying for so long and trying so
> many things I'm at the point where I don't even care about commercial
> cutting or any fancy editing.  I just want the recording burnt.  On Linux.
> 
> I've read stuff in the archives about mux or mulitplexing or something to
> that nature which is supposed to be IO based and strip the audio and video
> of an hour recording in about 10 and you can burn to DVD.  I just don't know
> how.
> 
> I also spent a lot of time trying stuff I found on www.dvdrhelp.com but
> haven't really got anywhere.
> 
> How about just making an SVCD from one of the .nuv files?  Easy?
> 
This script works for me, hope it helps you.


#!/bin/sh

##################################################################
#
# wrie_dvd
#
# Writes a DVD from a MythTV saved .nuv file (assumeing it was saved 
# with a PVR-250 or OVR-350, thus it's already in MPEG2 format)
#
# Argument 1 is the name of the .nuv file
#
################################################################

WORKDIR=work$$

cd /cache/tmp

mkfifo aud0
mkfifo vid0
mkfifo dvdmpg
mpeg2desc -a0 < $1 > aud0 &
mpeg2desc -v0 < $1 > vid0 &
mplex -f 8 -V -o dvdmpg aud0 vid0 &
dvdauthor -o $WORKDIR -f dvdmpg
dvdauthor -o $WORKDIR -T

rm aud0
rm vid0
rm dvdmpg

growisofs -dvd-video -Z /dev/dvd $WORKDIR

rm -r $WORKDIR

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