[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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