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

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 7:00 AM, James Hall <Hall.JamesR at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:36 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
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>> 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?")
> 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
> 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.

Technicall I think you COULD enter the ripped copy into the recordings
database, which may fool the system into thinking it had already
recorded that episode, but I am not familiar enough with either the
database or the scheduler to make a definitive statement on that.