<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 14, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Brad Benson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">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> <BR> 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></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The disk burn would be in addition to the hard disk recording, not in place of it. You could even add a feature to print a DVD label with the data from the database.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Come to think of it that's not a bad idea for an addition to MythBurn itself.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><DIV> </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. <BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> 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></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Actually MythBurn is working quite well on my system. It's just that if there is a program on that I want to watch, and I *know* that I will want a DVD of it for some reason, I could save the time required to run MythBurn on it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Say, for example, someone comes over to watch a show featuring their child on local origination, and wants to take a DVD of it with them when they leave, a perfect solution.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Since the datastream already exists, if the system is fast enough I wouldn't think it would be too difficult to implement. Even my pre-historic coding skills can probably hack up some way of doing this. Just thought it might be something quick and easy that some folks might like.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I just wondered if there was any interest in the feature out there, I'll put you down as a "no".</DIV></BODY></HTML>