[mythtv-users] Re: MythDVD

[Joseph A. Caputo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:18 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: MythDVD
>
>
> 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. :)


Try the 'mythname.pl' script in the contrib/ subdirectory of the Myth
source.


> >> 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...


I'll second that... I've been using this to do all of my DVD rips for quite
a while; works really well.  The cool thing is it's just a wrapper around
the CLI utilities (mostly from the 'transcode' package), so for Myth to do
something similar would be mostly a matter of writing the UI (and MythDVD is
part of the way there already!)

-JAC