[mythtv-users] tv to dvd?

Dwaine Garden DwaineGarden at rogers.com
Wed Jan 28 21:24:48 EST 2004


Chris Germano wrote:

>mythdvd can play/rip a DVD and uses the mythtranscode code to convert it as
>far as I know. However there is no direct tv -> dvd at this time. I believe
>someone is working on that actually, there have been some discusions in the
>last day in the irc channel.
>
>If you want to do it manually download nuvexport
>http://forevermore.net/myth/. It's a script that allows you to select a
>show, then convert it. Be warned it has a lot of dependencies that might
>just error out if you don't have them installed. Converting to MPEG2 is
>extreamly slow also.
>
>As for the 2hrs, well that's a DVD specification. The spec allows for up to
>6 hours at a low bitrate, so you can adjust things like that through
>nuvexport, just do some math.
>________
>
He right, it takes about 3 days on my Pentium III 667mhz to convert to 
nuv to a svcd disc format.


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