[mythtv-users] DVD/Blu-Ray set-up

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:23 AM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2019, 8:03 AM Stephen Worthington <
> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 13 May 2019 06:36:38 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>> >On Mon, May 13, 2019, 02:40 Swanseasurfing <swanseasurfing at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Daryl,
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this way could be a quick workaround for you:
>> >> 1.  Export recordings.
>> >> 2. Use a Desktop Computer to burn the files to DVD.
>> >>
>> >> But this does not provide a solution for the problem.
>> >>
>> >> Kind Regards
>> >>   Jens
>> >>
>> >I tried that but the files are not in the proper form to burn, I still
>> need
>> >some myth magic. Thanks.
>>
>> A lot of DVD / BluRay players these days will play files from a data
>> DVD.  The MythTV recording files are MPEG2 Transport Stream files,
>> which is a little different from the MPEG2 Program Stream files that
>> DVDs use, but it may well be that your player can handle them.  So try
>> burning the recording files to a data DVD, and if necessary change the
>> extension from .ts to .mpg if the player does not see the files as
>> valid.  There is heaps of freeware that will burn data DVDs.
>>
>> If that does not work because your player is too old, then you will
>> need to find some DVD mastering software that is capable of converting
>> the MPEG2 Transport Stream files as part of its mastering process.
>> There should be some freeware out there that can do that, but off the
>> top of my head I can not point you at any, as I have paid software to
>> do that (Nero, for example).
>>
>> It is also possible to use freeware like ffmpeg (on Linux or Windows)
>> to convert the MythTV recordings to what DVD mastering software needs,
>> but that gets complicated, so try the easy ways first.
>> _______________________________________
>
>
> In the past I have opened optical disks and created an autoplay disk from
> a recording nor video in Myth (preferred option). Recently I installed
> Brassario, opened it selected the video file, but it would not burn,
> changing the .avi to .mpg didn't help either. IIRC Bill helped me sort out
> ROM drive allocation. Myth is looking for /dev/dvd and my drive presents as
> /dev/sr0 when viewed in "disks".
>

I found Bill's original reply:
 Probably 2 answers. 1 might be to adjust udev rules to create
symbolic links to /dev/sr0. The 2nd and much easier would be
to go to

     Frontend, Setup->Archive File Settings->Location of DVD

I suspect yours is set to /dev/dvd and you don't have
such a file. But it's likely you do have /dev/sr0

Prove it 1st with:

     ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/sr0

which renders:
daryl at trieli:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/sr*
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      3 May 13 09:17 /dev/dvd -> sr1
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 13 09:17 /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 May 13 09:17 /dev/sr1
daryl at trieli:~$
 The only problem now is the path from 2014 no longer exists in my current
setup. The most logical path I see is: FE setup>Media Settings>Video
Settings>Player Settings, where I've set Default Player to Internal, DVD
Player to /dev/sr1, DVD drive to default, Blu-Ray Mount to /dev/sr0, Region
to A, and alternate player UN-checked. Has anyone else got this working?

TIA Daryl
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