[mythtv-users] Dual Layer burning

[Brian Wood]

On Nov 25, 2006, at 11:36 PM, Chad wrote:

> On 11/25/06, Gary Jones <garysj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I want to record a football game, today's BYU victory over Utah,  
>> for about a
>> dozen friends (wow, what a finish!!!).
>
> Nobody will want to watch it.  They'll just assume it's a fake because
> everyone knows Utah always whoops BYU.  :D
>
>> It is one large file, so a normal DVD
>> won't work, but I am wondering about a dual-layer disk. Does  
>> MythBurn in
>> MythTV 0.19 handle dual-layer burning? If not (or if so...) could  
>> someone
>> step me through that process, or point me in the right direction?  
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Good luck, if you don't get much else in the way of help, I second the
> K3B option, it is known to work.
>


You didn't mention how it would be recorded.

Assuming it was recorded with a PVR, here's what I have done from a  
command line:

De-mux the file with projectx

Re-mux it with mplex

Create the proper directory structure with dvdauthor

Burn the DVD with growisofs

More info can be found at:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Archiving_Recordings_to_DVD

Mythburn will attempt to re-quant the file to fit onto a single-layer  
disk. This works for me some of the time, but not always. The above  
"recipe" has never failed me (yet).

But I'll bet if you edit out the commercials the file will fit  
without problems. To be safe you should make a backup copy of the  
file before editing it.