[mythtv-users] An idea for importing video from removable media

[Phill Wiggin]

On 5/11/06, Derek Meek <thekazan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Stephen Atkins wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine and I often will burn a tv show to cd/dvd with the
> > nuv export information.  He's still running version 18 of MythTV and
> > I'm running 19 so importing the video doesn't work.  Not a big deal as
> > its fairly easy to watch in myth video.  My idea is to make another
> > plugin for myth that we could get to read some removable media (either
> > cd/dvd/usb stick/ipod) and if a specific file is found (some sort of
> > xml file something like an RSS feed xml) it would create a menu of the
> > media titles.  From there you could watch the show, listen to the
> > music that sort of thing.  What would make it even better is the
> > ability to use nuv export to create the xml file.
> >
> >
> > Stephen
>
> this probably treads too far into enabling sharing

Sounds to me like any other converstion/archival topic.  If it's too
close to sharing, then isn't transcoding to .avi too close also?

I could get maybe 2-3 hour-long shows worth of video onto a 4G DVD,
but I could transcode them to .avi and get around 10ish.  Archiving
the video w/ xml markup seems to be more geared to archival, where
.avi (et. al.) would be more likely to enable sharing (due to the
smaller filesizie, etc).

--Phill W