[mythtv-users] Using DVD VIDEO_TS directories on disk with MythTV?

[Todd Ignasiak]

On 1/19/06, Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/20/06, Todd Ignasiak <ignasiak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The file layout is something like:
> >
> >      /XMas_2002/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB}
> >      /Wedding/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB}
> >
> > Where the top directory is the name of the DVD, the second is always
> > VIDEO_TS, and the DVD data files are below that.  Ideally, I would like
> to
> > treat the top dir as the title, and associate a JPEG image with that,
> and
> > have a view launched that treats VIDEO_TS as a DVD.
>
> You could try having a single directory somewhere with links to the
> vob files in each subdirectory. You could write a shell script to
> create the links automatically from the top directory names.



Thanks for the response.

 The VOBs all use the same filenames, so there would be conflicts.  But, I
guess the links could use different names.  But, then it would break the
relationship between the IFO file and the VOB data.  So, DVD menus and
language support would be broken.

If I go this route, I think I would change my DVD's to single file videos,
either one huge VOB, MPEG2 file, or H.264 file.    The downside there is
that I lose DVD Menus, chapters, etc.
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