[mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Felix]

Carl Lewis wrote:

> Felix wrote:
>
>> I tried three options and all three failed in one way or another :-( 
>> . I'll try to describe them here, and if somebody notices some 
>> glarious goofs (or not so glarious) - I would greatly appreciate the 
>> feedback. I am fairly new to DVD authoring, and to MythTV, and I 
>> *have* to burn the shows on DVD for my reputation to survive...
>>
>> 1. mythburn. I got quite far with this... I downloaded from 
>> sourceforge <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/> 
>> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythburn/), tinkered with install.sh 
>> (changed directories and user/group names) and successfully ran it:
>> MythWeb is installed at /var/www/html/mythweb
>> Installing DVD Menu option into MythWeb
>> However, there is no DVD menu option - there are *no* options under 
>> MythWeb. I restarted backend, just in case - is there any last steps 
>> to configure mythweb to enable this option?
>>
>> Any ideas? Please!
>> Felix
>
>
> Felix, I haven't tried mythburn, I have tried the other two and
> have found option 4 (ProjectX/dvdauthor) better :-)
> Not perfect, but better. ProjectX allows you to cut out
> unwanted segments without stuffing the audio/video sync, the
> other two caused me problems in that area.
>
> The only problem I've had with ProjectX/dvdauthor
> is that the burnt discs won't play perfectly in some DVD
> players. Seems to be something causing jumping/looping
> problems. But hey, they work fine in mine (Pioneer).
>
> cheers
> Carl.

Carl,
ProjectX seemed too daunting... too many packages to choose from, and 
completely not clear what's needed for what! Maybe after 3 failures I 
wasn't adventures to try yet another option :-\  Anyway, I made some 
more progress with mythburn. First, I figured that there are *two* 
mythwebs. One is an option in mythfrontend (Information Center - Web) 
that is empty for me; and another is php site http://localhost/mythweb 
(which I completely forgot about).

It seems that install script puts itself as an option into that php 
site, but fails. Even so, I can start it directly 
http://localhost/mythweb/mythtvburndvd/ Generally, it has a lot of 
hard-coded stuff. But I am OK playing around with PHP, so I think I am 
getting somewhere here. If (once ;-) ) I get stuck - I'll try ProjectX. 
Any "quick start" documentation for that?

Thanks
Felix