[mythtv-users] Re: MythDVD

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, Dick wrote:

>>> 1. I have lots of episodes of Martha Stewart which my wife does not 
>>> want me to delete and I am running out of disk space.  I would like 
>>> to transcode them to mpeg4 and burn them to DVD.  (They are in mpeg2 
>>> now because I am using a PVR-250 and I couldn't get the new 
>>> transcoder to work yet.)
>>>
>>> 2. I would also like to burn backup copies of my DVD movies.
>>>
>>> Re: 1. above, can anyone suggest a reasonable work-around until a 
>>> burner is implemented?
>>
>> Suggestion #1: dvdrecord
>
> Yes, I am aware of linux programs to do this.  It's just that the file
> names used in Mythtv are not easy to correlate with the show dates and
> titles.

The dates are right there in the file names. So are the channels. The 
names... That's another story. :)

>> Suggestion #2 (really more pertinent to your second item): dvd::rip
>>
>> http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/
>>
>> If you happen to be using Red Hat Linux, there are rpms of it, and all
>> its dependencies from freshrpms.net. I make frequent use of dvd::rip
>> for "backing up" my DVDs (I might accidentally back up some from
>> Blockbuster and Hollywood Video on occasion, too... :)
>
> That one I hadn't seen!  At first glance it looks good...  I hope
> something like it makes its way into MythDVD eventually.

Probably a bit more than MythDVD needs (or should have), but yes, a 
very good program, and highly flexible...

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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