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

[Boyd II, Willy]

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>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Using DVD writer as primary DVD drive?
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>> 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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>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.
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Two separate things.  Mounting "any image as a virtual CD/DVD drive",
sounds to me like mounting an iso image (file), which is definitely
supported in linux.  

I think the original post was about mounting the physical disk, and yes
I believe that's possible.  At least I know most data dvd's are
mountable as iso9660... I really have no experience with the udf
filesystem but I'm nearly certain that's supported in most modern
distro's also.

And once mounted, xine can play from any directory that holds a
dvd-video structure (whether mounted or the ripped vobs).  No need to do
any piping there.  The part I'm not positively sure about is how to copy
the exact structure as mounted.  mkisofs??

>Josh
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