[mythtv-users] DVD -> svideo on pvr250

[Kevin Kuphal]

darth vader wrote:
> Hi all, sorry if this has been covered before, but I have been unable 
> to find it.  I have a large collection of childrens DVD's for
> my daughter.  I wanted to rip all of them to the mythbox, so that I 
> had instant access to all of them.  I also wanted to
> encode the main titles only as xvid to conserve space.  That and my 
> daughter doesn't need any of the bonus features, etc. 
> I have been able to rip them on my windows box and transcode them no 
> problem.  However the audio and video never
> sync.  I have tried every option in all the ripping/encoding tools and 
> still no luck. 
>
> What I wanted to do, was put the movie in the dvd player, hook the 
> svideo output of the dvd player into the
> svideo input of the pvr250.  Play the dvd, record it off of the svideo 
> input and then transcode it to xvid. 
> Complicated I know, but it beats transcoding for hours only to realize 
> the audio is off sync. 
> My basic question is, this seems possible, but has anyone tried this 
> or know for a fact that it is or is not
> possible. 
Not that this provides a Myth solution, but this is all so much easier 
on Windows.  Use something like CladDVD to rip the main VOB file 
unencrypted to the hard disk.  Use VirtualDubMod to reencode to Divx or 
xvid or whatever.  I've found that many kids DVDs, especially Disney do 
not reencode well without audio drifting so I just leave those as VOB 
files on the hard disk.  They play back just as well with mplayer or 
xine as xvid/divx do, just a little more disk space.

Kevin