[mythtv-users] Archive

[Kevin Kuphal]

Ralph Little wrote:

>
> Hi,
> What do most people do to archive off their recordings that they want 
> to keep when they start to run out of space?
> I quite fancy the idea of burning VCDs or SVCDs so that can sling them 
> into the CD and play them from within MythTV.
> Is this what others do?
>
You really have to choices: Burn VCDs, SVCDs, or DVDs for playback using 
those playback tools.  Or just write the NUV files to a CD or DVD and 
play them back.  The former has the ability to playback on devices other 
than MythTV.  The latter has the advantage of not requiring re-encoding 
of content to another format.  Of course, depending on the value of your 
time, buying a bigger disk could just simply be the cheapest solution.  
With 160GB drive regularly showing up with rebates around $50-$60, it's 
not that expensive compared to buying media and spending time shuffling 
content.

Kevin