[mythtv-users] Recordings to DVD

[Greg]

J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> Greg wrote:
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>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>> Thomas Börkel wrote:
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>>>> HI!
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>>>> J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
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>>>>>> 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 
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>>>> What exactly is broken there? Is there a time frame when it will be 
>>>> fixed?
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>>> 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. 
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>> 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...
>>
> Myth has transcoded from MPEG2 to MPEG4 for quite some time now...  
> MPlayer seems to play them fine. 

I've know that Myth has be able to transcode from MPEG2 to MPEG4 for a 
while now, but I am not able to play transcode files in Mplayer. This 
morning I attempted to play a transcode MPEG4 file in Mplayer and Xine 
to see if something changed, but I am still unable to play the file. I 
remember the patch for Mplayer that allow this.... If there is something 
I'm missing I'd sure like to know it.... =_)

Greg