[mythtv-users] cleanup after MythArchive

[John Pilkington]

Rod Smith wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008 18:48:55 Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>> I just had my first successful run with MythArchive to make an ISO file and
>> it has left some files behind - intermediate files, some quite large. Am I
>> expected to clean up after or is there some process that removes everything
>> but the resulting ISO?
> 
> AFAIK, there's no automatic cleanup provision; however, when you create 
> another DVD with MythArchive, it'll automatically delete all the old files, 
> so they won't multiply like tribbles until they fill your hard disk. If your 
> disk is cramped enough that losing a few gigabytes to these files is a 
> problem, I recommend you delete them manually.
> 
I think you'll find that they are needed by the internal player if you 
'play created dvd' - it doesn't playback from the iso image.  For that 
you could try

  xine "dvd://path/to/mythburn.iso"