[mythtv-users] DVD/Blu-Ray set-up

[Daryl McDonald]

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 9:40 AM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 8:23 AM Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
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>> On Mon, May 13, 2019, 8:03 AM Stephen Worthington <
>> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 13 May 2019 06:36:38 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Mon, May 13, 2019, 02:40 Swanseasurfing <swanseasurfing at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hi Daryl,
>>> >>
>>> >> Maybe this way could be a quick workaround for you:
>>> >> 1.  Export recordings.
>>> >> 2. Use a Desktop Computer to burn the files to DVD.
>>> >>
>>> >> But this does not provide a solution for the problem.
>>> >>
>>> >> Kind Regards
>>> >>   Jens
>>> >>
>>> >I tried that but the files are not in the proper form to burn, I still
>>> need
>>> >some myth magic. Thanks.
>>>
>>> A lot of DVD / BluRay players these days will play files from a data
>>> DVD.  The MythTV recording files are MPEG2 Transport Stream files,
>>> which is a little different from the MPEG2 Program Stream files that
>>> DVDs use, but it may well be that your player can handle them.  So try
>>> burning the recording files to a data DVD, and if necessary change the
>>> extension from .ts to .mpg if the player does not see the files as
>>> valid.  There is heaps of freeware that will burn data DVDs.
>>>
>>> If that does not work because your player is too old, then you will
>>> need to find some DVD mastering software that is capable of converting
>>> the MPEG2 Transport Stream files as part of its mastering process.
>>> There should be some freeware out there that can do that, but off the
>>> top of my head I can not point you at any, as I have paid software to
>>> do that (Nero, for example).
>>>
>>> It is also possible to use freeware like ffmpeg (on Linux or Windows)
>>> to convert the MythTV recordings to what DVD mastering software needs,
>>> but that gets complicated, so try the easy ways first.
>>> _______________________________________
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>>
>> In the past I have opened optical disks and created an autoplay disk from
>> a recording nor video in Myth (preferred option). Recently I installed
>> Brassario, opened it selected the video file, but it would not burn,
>> changing the .avi to .mpg didn't help either. IIRC Bill helped me sort out
>> ROM drive allocation. Myth is looking for /dev/dvd and my drive presents as
>> /dev/sr0 when viewed in "disks".
>>
>
> I found Bill's original reply:
>  Probably 2 answers. 1 might be to adjust udev rules to create
> symbolic links to /dev/sr0. The 2nd and much easier would be
> to go to
>
>      Frontend, Setup->Archive File Settings->Location of DVD
>
> I suspect yours is set to /dev/dvd and you don't have
> such a file. But it's likely you do have /dev/sr0
>
> Prove it 1st with:
>
>      ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/sr0
>
> which renders:
> daryl at trieli:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/sr*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      3 May 13 09:17 /dev/dvd -> sr1
> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 13 09:17 /dev/sr0
> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 May 13 09:17 /dev/sr1
> daryl at trieli:~$
>  The only problem now is the path from 2014 no longer exists in my current
> setup. The most logical path I see is: FE setup>Media Settings>Video
> Settings>Player Settings, where I've set Default Player to Internal, DVD
> Player to /dev/sr1, DVD drive to default, Blu-Ray Mount to /dev/sr0, Region
> to A, and alternate player UN-checked. Has anyone else got this working?
>
> TIA Daryl
>

I installed mythplugins and things seem to be going well, sorry for the
noise, talking/typing it out helped me.
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