[mythtv-users] Rip DVDs to PVR-350 .nuv format?

[Simon Kenyon]

get the via "hacked" version of xine (get viaexp from sf.net)
it has dvd navigation and with libdvdcss you can watch encrypted dvds
handles multi region if you have a rpc1 dvd

i use it just fine on an EPIA-M9000
i know you have a 6000 but it should be ok
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simon

On Friday 23 April 2004 05:59, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> mtrisko wrote:
> > I have a system with a slow CPU (Via C3 800Mhz), using the PVR-350
> > TV-out. Recorded TV shows play great, but I haven’t had any success
> > trying to get DVDs to play. I’ve tried Matthias’ X driver and the
> > related ivtv patches, but so far no matter what I’ve tried the video
> > is choppy and sound doesn’t work.
>
> Yep. No Xv = need big CPU. Won't work on my Athlon XP 1700+, either.
>
> > <>What I’d like to do is find a way to make the DVD into the same
> > format the PVR-350 uses for recorded TV, and play them the same way. I
> > suppose I could try hooking up my standard DVD player’s output to the
> > PVR-350 input and simply recording the analog signal, but is there a
> > way to simply convert the files to the same MPEG2 format mythtv uses
> > when it plays shows recorded with the PVR-250/350?
>
> PVR-350 records to MPEG2 and DVD's are recorded in MPEG2, so the easiest
> thing to do is just to send the (unencrypted/decrypted) MPEG2 to the
> PVR-350. That's exactly what this patch does:
>
> http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/mplayer-ivtvosd.diff
>
> Unfortunately, since MPlayer doesn't do DVD Navigation, you won't have
> access to the menus. (Pretty sure about that, but I haven't patched
> MPlayer to verify.)
>
> If you really want files on disk, you probably just need to decrypt the
> ones on the DVD. Note, there are legal implications to decrypting DVD's
> in some parts of the world (even if just decrypting them while watching
> them with MPlayer/xine)... IANAL...
>
> HTH.
>
> Mike