On 5/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Phill Wiggin</b> <<a href="mailto:alamar@gmail.com">alamar@gmail.com</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;">
On 5/11/06, Derek Meek <<a href="mailto:thekazan@gmail.com">thekazan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>Sounds to me like any other converstion/archival topic. If it's too<br>close to sharing, then isn't transcoding to .avi too close also?
<br><br>I could get maybe 2-3 hour-long shows worth of video onto a 4G DVD,<br>but I could transcode them to .avi and get around 10ish. Archiving<br>the video w/ xml markup seems to be more geared to archival, where<br>.avi (et. al.) would be more likely to enable sharing (due to the
<br>smaller filesizie, etc).</blockquote><div><br>In a way it is more archival then sharing. One of our other uses for this would be to back up shows that we haven't seen yet to say a usb hard drive. That way we could free up some disk space for other show to record. I know I have recorded the entire season of Law and Order, and SVU and CI and the new show Conviction. I haven't seen any of them but I would like to see them at some point this summer when I have more time. If I could just back these up to an external hd with some sort of auto detection when I plug the device in it would solve all kinds of problems for my wife. She doesn't know how to mount the drive then get Myth to scan for new videos and all of that. She just wants to plug and play.
<br><br>Any way like I say if anyone is interested just let me know.<br><br>Stephen<br></div></div>