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

Kevin D. Snodgrass kds.mythtv at cox.net
Tue Mar 30 15:12:31 EST 2004


Franco wrote:
> 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...

Do DVDs have a mountable filesystem?  If so, then something 
like this might work:

mount /mnt/dvd
dd if=/mnt/dvd/whatever.mpg 2>/dev/null|tee 
/home/videos/whatever.mpg|xine -pq



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