DVD as backup to avoid delete button WAS: [mythtv-users] What NOT to do to your Myth box...

[Michael Miyabara-McCaskey]

Since I see that the original thread has been hijacked into create ways to
recover the data that was lost...

It seemed like many people were advocating transfering files to DVD, with
perhaps the preferred method as fully authored DVDs.

This brings up the issue I would love to know the answer to in mass which
is...

Are you doing:

1. Did you buy a $1k to $8k DVD Jukebox w/FireWire connect
(http://www.powerfile.com/) to your Mythbackend as pure mythfiles? (not
using fully authored DVDs)

2. Did you putting the new DVD on the shelf, and put it into your DVD
player (set-top or mythtv frontend) to replay the disk?

3. Did you buy an off the shelf DVD jukebox (Sony 200 or 400 capacity)?
Paul below says he did a direct connect to the TV input... Has anyone got
this setup working to the Myth Backend with/any existing Myth plugin?


-Michael


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Paul Kidwell wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael
> >
> > After you have finished the what appears to be a monumental set of tasks
> > to get the DVDs authored...
> >
> > How to you access them? Do you just store them on the shelf?
> >
> > I myself was hoping for a solution to use cheap off the shelf Sony DVD
> > jukebox - 400 DVD (1.56TB capacity - for $300)... that could be fed into
> > the Myth backend, somehow... but haven't seen any response on a previous
> > thread.
>
> I have a component video system. TV is set to video input (don't use tuner in
> TV) I have a  5.1 surround system receiver and have my Myth box set as video
> input 1, my VCR as video input 2, and have a Sony DVD changer (only 200 disk
> though) plugged into the DVD input.
>
> Paul
>
>