[mythtv-users] cleanup after MythArchive
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Tue Mar 4 18:50:19 UTC 2008
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.)
In Trunk (ATrpms) CD/DVD >Archive Files > Arch Utils > Play.. or Burn..
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.
>
Yes. And I use K3b at slower speed and with verification. Mild paranoia?
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