[mythtv-users] Burning DVD's from inside the Myth

[James L. Paul]

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On Saturday 01 November 2003 08:31, A Listman wrote:
> I am running Myth 0.11 on Redhat9 and overall am very happy with it.
>
> For now, I burn some of the video I record out to DVD's using Nero on
> my Windows PC.  The process works - but it is very slow and ties up the
> Windows PC for many many hours as the video is recoded to DVD format
> (VOB).
>
> Can anyone comment on when Myth might include the ability to burn out
> to DVD's from within the Myth menus?   I understand that transcoding
> works better with Myth 0.12 but it doesn't look like the burn to DVD
> process is in the menus yet.

I haven't seen any mention of it lately. Actually, I don't recall anybody 
talking about transcoding _to_ MPEG2, probably because so many people seem to 
have the PVR cards that do hardware MPEG2 encoding. I usually see discussions 
about transcoding _from_ MPEG2 to something else.

For me, no transcoding is needed, and I was thinking of adding a screen that 
would simply burn a recorded program to dvd. However, I usually want to do 
some editing, so it hasn't been a priority for me to automate the process of 
just dumping a file to a DVD. (It's just a matter of demuxing, remuxing with 
NAV markers, then dvdauthor, mkisofs, cdrecord.) It's the editing step before 
all that I'm unable to do on Linux, and I have no interest in wasting DVD 
space on commercials.

> I know I can run the burn manually using the usual Linux burning tools
> but it would be much nicer if there was a way for non-technical types
> (like my wife) could burn DVD's from directly within the interface.

Ironic for me, since that's a personal reason of mine to _not_ make it easier. 
I'd end up with hundreds of DVD discs containing stuff we'd never watch. ;) 
That's just humor, I do see the need for that ease of use.

When I have a way to edit commercials out of my recorded MPEG2 programs using 
the cutlist, I will definitely automate burning (X)SVCDs and DVDs from my 
Myth box if somebody else hasn't done it for me. But right now, I can't even 
edit the video manually, much less automate it. I don't think it's far in the 
future though. :)

> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Chris
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