[mythtv-users] DVD Newbie. Need Guidance.

[Mike Holden]

On 30 December 2016 at 16:11, Michael Papet <mpapet at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok, be nice.
>

Of course :-)


>
> I've been recording television for years and just getting around to
> abandoning old-school DVDs.
>
> The Ideal scenario for our house is ripping to a more portable format.
> The end result being browsing by Show Title->Season->DVD #1->episode_$x via
> upnp on macs.  We have mythfrontends too, so I assume it will browse
> similarly.
>
> Does mytharchive get me that?
>

Are you trying to save existing recordings from the computer onto home-made
DVDs, or taking existing DVDs and putting the contents onto the computer?
It's a bit unclear from your question what you are looking to achieve.

I'm assuming you are asking about taking existing DVDs and putting them on
the computer, since you are asking about uPNP.

Mytharchive is for the 1st scenario, taking recordings from the computer
and putting them onto a DVD. so doesn't get what you are looking for,
unless you use it to create ISO files on the computer disk and play back
from there. IMHO, this is a bit clumsy and doesn't get you the best
experience.

I would suggest using an external program to rip the DVD contents to
computer. I would strongly suggest you look at handbrake for this (
www.handbrake.fr). You basically tell the program what name to save each
file as. Look at the Myth Wiki for MythVideo to see the standard format for
the filenames, which would basically be something like House_s01e04.mkv,
meaning episode 4 from season 1 of House. Handbrake can write to mkv or mp4
format; your choice would depend partly on the program you use for playing,
and what it can handle. Using this format of filename allows Myth to
download episode information and images to enhance your browsing
experience. From this point of view, it's better to save programs by
episode and season, rather than disk number. If a disk contains say 3
programs, you rip it to 3 separate files, one for each episode.

Further, create folders for Program name, then subdirectories for each
season, so you would have House/Season 1, House/Season 2 etc. under your
chosen base location.

How you organise at the top level is up to you and your preference. I have
base directories of /myth/dvd1, /myth/dvd2 etc, and then subdirectories
under those for basic genres - Comedy, Drama, Film, Sport etc.
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