[mythtv-users] OT: backing up miniDV

[Craig Treleaven]

At 6:40 PM -0600 1/19/14, jedi wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 02:10:14AM +0800, Phil Wild wrote:
>>  >
>>  > > The question of what you can use to create a proper BD disk with in
>>  > > Linux is a very good question indeed...
>>  >
>>  > Indeed.  But as I say, whether that's his best move depends on his
>>  > goals.
>>  >
>>
>>  My goal is to create a backup disk that is playable on a standard blu-ray
>>  player.
>>  The primary location of the media will be a directory under mythtv that I
>>  can view and play from.
>>  I think the simplest approach is to capture the video on a Mac mini via
>>  firewire rather than Linux then...
>
>    If you are going to use a Mac, you certainly don't want to be feeding it
>"alien" files. Macs aren't terribly good at doing that. You will get stuck
>feeding your files through some other converter before Mac apps know what
>to do with it.

Pardon?  QuickTime and iMovie on OS X have been very comfortable at 
importing quite a few digital video formats since...well, nearly 
forever:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2264

Craig