[mythtv-users] Dumping MPEG files to DVDs

[Mike Perkins]

On 10/05/16 14:50, Andre Newman MythTV wrote:
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>>> The older the DVD player and the more recent the recording the less chance of it working properly. Broadcast encoders (even mpeg2) have developed significantly in the last few years, the DVD spec is exactly as it was when it was written.
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>>> I find it mostly works, and when it doesn’t, go try a different dvd player.
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>>> Andre
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>> I'm not sure whether I've been bitten recently by this.  I burn DVDs from UK SD dvb-t recordings using MythArchive with a tweaked mythburn.py, the project-x demuxer and mp2 audio; the .iso images include 'implantisomd5' and all burning is done and verified by k3b.
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>> Recently I've found that a few DVDs are rejected or play badly in my stand-alone players, although mythfrontend plays them fine.  I haven't seen any pattern in this - but it's annoying…
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> I especially got caught by Film4, I gave up trying to archive to DVD because very few recordings would play. BBC 1,2,3&4 were ok  for years and then they changed their encoding profiles and it never worked again.
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> You may spot a pattern, all channels from a particular broadcaster or especially all channels together in a mux are often updated together.
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> I used various mastering software, including project-x for cleanup but the result was always the same, I found my PS3 was much more tolerant than my more normal Yamaha DVD player.
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> More recently I’ve noticed the same with HD recordings and blurays, about three or four years ago I could reliably record a show and archive it off to bluray. I gave up trying a couple of years ago when everyone bought newer h264 encoders and overnight nothing would work, even the PS3 doesn’t play any current recordings.
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> These days huge hard disks are so cheap all my DVDs, Blurays and even some CDV are stored in a box in the garage. The blurays and DVDs I made of favourite recordings all got ripped and back on to the hard disk again, they play fine then.
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> If you want to take something to someone to show them it’s harder, I found that good HD recordings can make very good SD DVDs when re-encoded.
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Don't forget that most modern TVs and other media players will accept USB sticks these days and you 
can get them up to 64GB. Plenty enough to take around if you need to.

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Mike Perkins