[mythtv-users] DVD Questions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/09/2007 05:02 PM, David Frascone wrote:
> My DVD player works mostly (need to fix .lircrc to get remote to work), 
> but now I'm trying to archive some DVD's and I'm having issues.
>
> First, my frontend is diskless.  I'm not sure if that matters.  (DVD 
> drive is on frontend)
>
> What I'm trying to do is read in the dvd, then, preferably, convert it 
> to divx, so I don't have to go find the kids favorite DVDs all the time.
>
> When I try "archive" dvd, I get errors about transcode not being found, 
> and to press a number key.
>
> Any ideas?
>   

http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-20.html#ss20.3

That's 20.3 (at the bottom of the page).  Diskless isn't an issue as 
long as you have the appropriate directory network mounted.

Mike