[mythtv-users] Re: Archiving Shows to DVD

Paul mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Sat Aug 13 10:41:12 UTC 2005


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Bene" <martin.bene at icomedias.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 11:56 PM
Subject: AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD


Hi Jim,

>> If you need a willing victim/beta tester, I'd be happy to
>> work on it with you and give you another box to validate
>> things on. I'm NTSC but running KnoppMyth R5A16. One of the
>> reasons I built this machine was to have a software project
>> to "play" in and maybe contribute stuff back and this is one
>> piece that would be a big win in WAF

>OK, I've now got a first hack ready to break your system :-)

>This version uses projectx for remux and commercial cutting. Cutting is
>NOT frame accurate, projectx rounds to the nearest GOP. Avidemux2 (which
>was used for cutting previosuly) doesn't round - it just produces broken
>output files if your cutpoints aren't on a Keyframe.

>Requirements:
>- projectx (well, obviously )
>- Xvfb or local X server

>See http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=32174#32174 for
>details.

>Changes implemented:

>- support for multiple audio streams. Commerical cut or remux will keep
>around all audio streams from the original recording. If you've got
>recordings with multiple audio streams (say, german and english streams)
>you'll get a DVD that allows you to switch languages. I haven't yet
>figured out how to find out which stream has which langauge and get this
>info over to the DVD, so the audio streams won't have nice names.

>- chapter submenu is optional and configurable via the web interface.
>while I like having the chapter marks in my titels I don't like the
>chapter submenu.
>- blue face / upside down thumbnails configurable via variables at the
>top of mythtvburn.sh
>- add a title listbox to the "burn DVD" webpage similar to the listbox
>in "recorded programs". makes it much easier to pick a couple of
>episodes from the same series.

>- if commercial cutting is disabled, revert to old behaviour and use
>cutpoints as chapter marks

>patch can be downloaded at
>http://mabene.icomedias.com/mythburn/cut-0.3.diff

>diff is against current CVS version of mythburn. Let me know how badly
>it breaks your system. I've tried this stuff on a  gentoo system with
>DVB TS Recordings in PAL Format so your box should be about as different
>as it's possible to be.

>Bye, Martin

Nice to see someone working on the mythburn scripts again. I've been having
a play with them myself recently. One of the problems with the scripts at
the
moment is they where written for use on knoppmyth and contain several hard
coded references to file paths etc. It would be nice to see some sort of
configuration file where you could set the location of the scripts, where to
create and store temporary files, what the mysql user and password should be
etc. to make them work on any distribution.
I also had a lot of problems with file permissions that need sorting out. It
would also be nice to get the install to be more consistent with how myth
installs things. e.g. install all files in ${PREFIX}/share/mythtv/mythburn.

If anyone is interested I have updated the mythburn-ui - the mythtv style
plugin - to compile and work with current svn.

What is the chance of mythburn becoming an official part of MythTV? I think
that would encourage more people to work on it and improve things.

Paul




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