[mythtv-users] Using DVD writer as primary DVD drive?

[Franco]

> Sounds like something that could be done with
> a shell script added to Myth's XML menu.
> Perhaps you could be a little more specific
> on what you expect from this button?

Ehm, yes. In my dreams it would be like this:

- I buy a DVD

- I insert it in the drive and click on the "magic button"

- the DVD is copied _as is_ to the hard disk
  (conceptually, something like dd if=/dev/dvd of=my_image.dvd)
  
- After that, I can forget about the physical DVD.
  Anytime I want to play it, I can play it from
  the copy stored on the hard disk (a second magic button?)
  A method for browsing among the stored DVD images
  would also be needed...


Going one step further in the fantasy, another useful option
would be "copy while playing". I've heard there are
commercial CDROM players which can copy the CD to disk while
listening it. Mythtv could do that with both CDs and DVDs...

Franco