[mythtv-users] Converting mythtv capture to DVD

[Brian Wood]

On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:01 AM, Tino Keitel wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 01:41:29 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The method I use is to utilize projectX to split up the file, them
>> use mplex to put it back together:
>>
>> mplex -f 8 <file>.mpg <file>.m2v <file>.mp2
>>
>> Then use dvdauthor in the normal manner:
>>
>> dvdauthor -o DVD <file>.mpg  (additional .mpg files if needed)
>
> Interesting. I thought that you need to prepare an XML file for
> dvdauthor before you can use it. How will the DVD look like if you add
> more then one mpg file? Will there be an menu?


In fact I do not know. I have only used the above method with  
one .mpg file. The syntax is taken from the howto at:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-23.html#ss23.19

I suspect that there would be no menu and the .mpg files would simply  
be concatenated together and split into 1GB segments, but I do not  
know for sure.

As I said I generally use Mythburn, but I did make a few DVDs with  
the above method before I got Mythburn set up properly.