[mythtv-users] Recordings to DVD

[Greg]

J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Thomas Börkel wrote:
>
>> HI!
>>
>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>>
>>>> Is there some way to automatically master recordings (done in 
>>>> MPEG2) to DVD? Possibly with generated menus? I know, there is a 
>>>> plugin for VDR which does this, but I don't know about MythTV.
>>>>
>>> I've been looking at doing it but have kind of put it on hold till 
>>> the MPEG2 to MPEG2 commercial cut code is up to snuff.  I don't see 
>>> much 
>>
>>
>>
>> What exactly is broken there? Is there a time frame when it will be 
>> fixed?
>
>
> Video artifacts, and audio sync issues following cutpoints come to 
> mind.  I believe I saw that someone was working on it.  The original 
> author is pressed for time right now so if he has to fix it it'll be 
> months from now.
>
> Personally, I'm less and less interested in archiving to video DVDs 
> and more interested in archiving MPEG4 content to backup DVDs so I can 
> fit several shows on one disk. 

Would be nice if transcoding mpeg2 converted it to a portable mpeg4, so 
that I could burning them on a CD/DVD if I decided to.. Mind you I can 
do that manually, so I guess if I need to bad enough, just would be nice 
to have that built in...

Greg