[mythtv-users] OT DVD ripping software

[jedi]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:52:43PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote:
> > Swanseasurfing wrote:
> >> Did anybody integrate an "import disc" menu item into MythTV (e.g. that
> > 
> >   I would not bother with something like that. The key advantage of something
> > like MythTV which is built on top of something like Linux which is ultimately 
> > just Unix is that "it's all just files".
> > 
> >   You can do what you need to do outside of MythTV and then let it deal with
> > the results you've created.
> 
> That's fine for most of us, but a lot of people would like a system where they pop a disk in the slot under the TV and "shortly afterwards" are able to watch it. The WAF for such a function would be a lot higher than any "well you have to go to this other system, run some magic incantations, and eventually you'll be able to watch the disk" setup.
> 

    The idea is that you can run your auto-ripper on any machine connected
to the network, not that you have to make it unecessarily difficult. Your
magic button doesn't have to be embedded in MythTV. It can be anywhere. It
can even be on someone's Windows box.