[mythtv-users] MythDVD ISO's

[John Baab]

Exactly.  I have the ISOs playing find with xine through mythvideo.  I am
interested in an easy method of using mythdvd to rerip these ISOs to a lossy
format when I need to free up some hard drive space.

On Dec 4, 2007 11:29 AM, Trey Thompson <treythompson at gmail.com> wrote:

> > John Baab wrote:
> > > I spent some time last night trying to trick mythdvd into thinking
> that
> > > a mounted ISO was actually a DVD .  I was able to get it to play by
> > > mounting an ISO to a folder and pointing the DVD setting at that
> folder,
> > > but the DVD ripper claimed there was no dvd inserted.  My goal is to
> > > make a DVD jukebox and when the hard drive space starts to fill up be
> > > able to rip videos from the ISO's that I had already ripped in order
> to
> > > make more room.  I know that I can just reinsert the DVD and re-rip
> then
> > > delete the old ISO, but its awful hard to do that when you are nowhere
> > > near a remote machine.
> >
> > MythTV will include an .iso file in the list displayed when you select
> > Media Library->Watch Videos. To do so the .iso file should be in the
> > directory you provided by selecting Utilities/Setup->Media
> > Settings->Video Settings->General Settings from the Main Menu and typing
> > it into the "Directory that holds videos" text box.
> >
> > I have not included the description of how to copy an .iso file from
> > your DVD reader to your video directory or how to add the DVD to the
> > MythTV database to provide a more elegant display because I am not sure
> > that I understand your problem.
>
> OP is trying to do what I've tried before.  Mount the ISO so that Myth
> will see it as a full DVD.  Then, from the Myth menus, select that you
> want to rip it into Perfect, or some other format, to get rid of the
> 8GB ISO file, and end up with a single 4GB MPG, or something similar.
> I haven't succeeded at this either.
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