[mythtv-users] Recordings to DVD

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Wed Feb 11 14:13:49 EST 2004


Greg wrote:

> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>
>> Thomas Börkel wrote:
>>
>>> HI!
>>>
>>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Is there some way to automatically master recordings (done in 
>>>>> MPEG2) to DVD? Possibly with generated menus? I know, there is a 
>>>>> plugin for VDR which does this, but I don't know about MythTV.
>>>>>
>>>> I've been looking at doing it but have kind of put it on hold till 
>>>> the MPEG2 to MPEG2 commercial cut code is up to snuff.  I don't see 
>>>> much 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What exactly is broken there? Is there a time frame when it will be 
>>> fixed?
>>
>>
>>
>> Video artifacts, and audio sync issues following cutpoints come to 
>> mind.  I believe I saw that someone was working on it.  The original 
>> author is pressed for time right now so if he has to fix it it'll be 
>> months from now.
>>
>> Personally, I'm less and less interested in archiving to video DVDs 
>> and more interested in archiving MPEG4 content to backup DVDs so I 
>> can fit several shows on one disk. 
>
>
> Would be nice if transcoding mpeg2 converted it to a portable mpeg4, 
> so that I could burning them on a CD/DVD if I decided to.. Mind you I 
> can do that manually, so I guess if I need to bad enough, just would 
> be nice to have that built in...
>
Myth has transcoded from MPEG2 to MPEG4 for quite some time now...  
MPlayer seems to play them fine.


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