[mythtv-users] Blu-ray

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Fri Nov 7 21:34:11 UTC 2014


On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 03:00:16PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:59 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 12:54:07PM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:44 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> >> >     I use the AnyDVD option.
> >>
> >> I do, too.  Running the Windows VM is a bit of a pain, but it works.
> >> AnyDVD works as advertised.
> >>
> >> > Once I decrypt the disk, I use other tools to turn the decrypted BluRay into
> >> > something that MythTV can easily use.
> >>
> >> I usually just have AnyDVD write directly into /var/lib/mythvideo via
> >> Samba.  MythTV seems to support reading the output of this pretty well
> >> without conversion, although it would be nice to have the ability to
> >> label the various tracks similar to labeling songs on a CD.
> >>
> >> For discs I don't plan to be rewatched, I use a standalone hardware
> >> player rather than using MythTV.
> >
> >     I tried that exactly once. The experience was bad enough to make
> > me never want to try it again. Even for one time use, ripping is worth
> > the bother.
> >
> >     MythTV really rocks compared to pretty much everything else out there.
> 
> I've yet to find a disc with unskippable ads, trailers, and warnings
> that run longer than the time required to rip a disc to MythVideo.

    Except I don't have to wait on that process. Nor does a room full of other
people. The only time actually required is of me and that's to start and stop
the process. The rest of the time is ignoring the machine while it does it's
thing.

    Actual active time spent interactively by a person is probably comparable
to (or less than) the length of those commercials.

> 
> If you want to go from removing the shrink wrap to watching a movie,
> MythTV isn't currently the shortest path.

    If shrink wrap is involved then it's not about immediate instant gratification anymore.


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