[mythtv-users] USB Drive question

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/2/06, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> >>>> kuphal at dls.net 02/02/06 9:16 AM >>>
> >>>>
> >> PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
> >>
> >>> No way am I using LVM ever again.  I'm trying to save up
> >>> some cash for a hardware raid5 solution.  I lost about
> >>> 3 years worth of recordings, some I don't care about, some
> >>> that are not easily replaced.  I guess I'll just use these
> >>> for backup, which is a decent idea for those hard to
> >>> replace recordings.
> >>>
> >>> I just thought these were such a good deal I could
> >>> use them temporarily, but I guess I'll wait for
> >>> another few months to put in my huge array.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> One of the things on my list of things to do after 0.19 is add the
> >> idea of storage groups to Myth to give at least a minimum level
> >> of flexibility for recording on different partitions without using
> >> LVM.  When it works, it works great, but the idea of my old 80GB
> >> drive taking down my two new 160GB drives when it fails is
> >> enough for me to want to add that feature.
> >>
> >
> > Excellent idea.  Or, give nuvexport (or whatever it is going to
> > be called) the ability to strip commercials out so the file
> > can be saved in a non-Recordings area.
> >
> > Like I said, there were things I recorded that are not replacable.
> > I should have burned them to DVD - like my daughter being
> > interviewed on TV - that I'm not quite sure how I'm going to
> > replace.  If I could have, after this was recorded, I would
> > have moved it to the permanent storage area, I just could
> > never get nuvexport to give me just the 5 minute clip of
> > her being interviewed, even with commflagging and all that.
> >
> >
> Well, 0.19 mythtranscode includes lossless cutting of MPEG-2 recordings
> as I understand it so that should be possible.
>

Yea, 0.19 does/will do it, and its been working great for me so far =)

Also you could have just *copied* the important recording's file from
your recordings drive to another drive if it was that important. most
things recorded aren't of such importance. Sure you loose a recorded
show or movie, no big deal. If I was on the news (hopefully for
something positive ;-) I'd copy it to another drive and burn it.

--
Steve