[mythtv-users] cleanup after MythArchive

[Paul Harrison]

Rod Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

Yep - those menu options are only available in trunk or the 0.21-fixes 
branch.

You can now create the DVD structure without burning it, test play it 
using a player of your choice (internal,  xine or whatever you like) and 
then if you are happy burn it to a DVD all from the archive menu.

Paul H.