[mythtv-users] cleanup after MythArchive

[Rod Smith]

On Tuesday 04 March 2008 05:50:14 Paul Harrison wrote:
> John Pilkington wrote:

[re: MythArchive temporary files]

> > I think you'll find that they are needed by the internal player if you
> > 'play created dvd' - it doesn't playback from the iso image.  For that
> > you could try
> >
> >   xine "dvd://path/to/mythburn.iso"

I've never seen the "Play created DVD" option -- perhaps it's a new one or is 
buried somewhere I've never noticed on my menus. (I'm running MythTV 0.20.2 
as delivered with Ubuntu.) To play a created DVD, I've simply created a 
symbolic link from my videos directory to the mythburn.iso file that 
MythArchive creates; that lets me run the image from the videos directory. 
This works quite well for me.

> John is correct you cannot delete any
> files in the dvd directory because they are used to test play the
> created DVD and also allows you to burn another copy if required from
> the Archive menu.

Is burning another copy another new option? I've not seen it on my system.

> There's actually no need to create the iso image 
> unless you are going to move the iso to another computer to burn so that
> can save typically 4Gb if you don't have that option checked.

Personally, I never burn directly to DVD. I run into problems frequently 
enough that I'd ruin a lot of blanks if I burned directly. Instead, I create 
an image file and then burn that AFTER I check it out.

-- 
Rod Smith