[mythtv-users] Lossless remux ISO to MKV for .22 video storage groups

[Robert McNamara]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For those of us who are not familiar with 0.22 storage groups, could
> someone briefly explain the benefits of taking an ISO and turning it
> into an MKV file? If I understand correctly, you're not reencoding
> anyting, just taking the MPEG2 video/AC3 audio/subtitles and putting
> them into a MKV container file.

The ability to stream and play them from MythVideo Storage Groups.
(allowing one to set up a frontend with zero configuration, no NFS/SMB
mounts, expand it on demand, host across multiple backends, etc.)

Robert