[mythtv-users] Rip TV Season DVD to episodes?

[jedi]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 02:00:05PM -0400, James Hall wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:36 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 06:49:01PM -0700, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Lindsay Mathieson <
> > > lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm not fussed about the trancoding, I'd be happy to get MPEG2 copies,
> > its
> > > > just Storage groups don't support playing of .ISO rips
> > > >
> > >
> > > Or you can wait for 0.24 which has that support.
> >
> > I don't think that's what he's interested in.
> >
> > He probably wants to address stuff by episode rather than by DVD &
> > then futz around with the menus. Some of those menus are really quite
> > annoying.
> >
> > I have the same problem. I have some Star Trek Deep Space Nine DVDs with
> some atrocious menus. They're fun but I don't need to see the little space
> ship zoom off through the wormhole every time I want to switch episodes. I
> found a guide to rip those onto my computer using a couple of Windows
> programs ("Windows, why can't I quit you?")

    What would do this any better on Windows? From what I have seen, all of
the tools on every platform are focused entirely on movies. They don't really
do anything for multi-disk,multi-track collections.

    My own setup is just a set of shell scripts that does each stage of the
process in bulk.

> 
> Did the same thing for my wife's MASH dvds. Now I just wish I could have
> Myth use the DVD episodes instead of the TV recordings when one comes on tv
> that I already have on the computer. :/ It'd free up the tuner for other

...yes. That would be a handy thing.

Although I have hacked together a sort of "smart playlist" facility in 
MythVideo that seems to do a passable job of replacing the main part of
MythTV for stuff that's already on DVD.

The key element is tracking the most recently watched episode for every 
show/directory.

> stuff and reduce use of the CPU for needless commercial skip. I was told
> that was impossible and it was never going to happen. I'm no programmer so I
> can't argue with whoever it was that said that.

Properly adding that sort of thing to MythTV would certainly be a lot of work.