[mythtv-users] mythburn or mytharchive?

Brian J. Stults bstults at fsu.edu
Fri Oct 6 02:35:16 UTC 2006


  Mike wrote:
 > Timothy Waters wrote:
 >
 >> The MythTV wiki says to use Mytharchive, but someone mentioned here
 >> recently that they prefer mythburn. What should I use?
 >>
 >> --
 >> Timothy Waters
 >> <mailto:timothy.waters[at]gmail.com>
 >>
 >
 > I like mythburn's web interface only because I can just go pick what I
 > want to burn and then burn. I don't understand why I need to go find
 > files to mark for archive, then go into export and select what files I
 > already selected to archive again. The logic of the work flow doesn't
 > make any sense to me and I feel like I'm taking extra steps for no
 > apparent reason. The part in export where your selecting what you
 > previously marked should be the only file selecting you do, and thus
 > makes me prefer mythburn with the old mythweb.
 >

I like being able to use mythburn from the command line.  There's no 
faster way.  Is there any plan to implement a CLI for mytharchive?

I was able to get the mythburn scripts working with 0.20 without too 
much trouble. The harder part was to get it to draw recordings from two 
different backends.


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