[mythtv-users] Using DVD writer as primary DVD drive?
Josh Jeppson
josh at jeppsons.org
Tue Mar 30 17:08:46 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
I do this very thing all the time under windows. Yet to try
mounting the filesystem under linux. DAEMON Tools on windows
will mount just about any image as a virtual CD/DVD drive.
So, I see no reason why this couldn't be setup under linux/myth.
Josh
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