On 4/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What about a "Burn to DVD in real-time" feature? Pressing a button<br>would cause what was being viewed on-screen to be burned to a disk,<br>in more or less real time. Perhaps this could work with LiveTV and/or<br>
viewing a recording.</blockquote><div><br>
Well, considering that MythBurn is arguably the best option
currently available for burning DVD's directly from Myth and it can be
difficult to get setup and configured correctly, I'd imagine there
would be quite a lot of work required to make this possible.
Since very few people seem to be willing to put the effort into
MythBurn who is going to develop this feature? <br>
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Aside from that, I really don't see any benefit to burning what is
currently being viewed directly to DVD. Remember we're talking
about a DVR here. Anything you're watching in Myth can be
recorded and saved for later watching/processing. Since you've
already got that feature, why bother with trying to write a disc in
realtime? Doesn't make any sense.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Even if the video were just burned to a disk in "raw data" form,<br>without attempting to be readable by consumer DVD players, I can see
<br>it as a useful feature.</blockquote><div><br>
What makes this useful? How is this different from just writing
the video to the hard disk other than the fact that the data is no
longer available to Myth once you remove the DVD?<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I guess it just bothers me that some consumer devices can do<br>something that my Myth system can't.
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While YOUR Myth system may not be able to burn DVD's some Myth systems
can. You just have to take the time to install and configure
MythBurn. That said, I'm currently struggling with trying to get
MythBurn installed and working on my system. No, it's not
trivial. But if you want it to "just work" then you should go out
and buy a DVR. That's what you pay for.<br>
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