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

[Josh Jeppson]

> 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