[mythtv-users] Wish-list and help offer

[Mark Maas]

Hello all,

What fun I've had with installing MythTV!

It's unbelievable what you can do with it! I've seen things like 
MythNotify that just blew me away! Don't need it, but the thought 
that it would be possible, is mind blowing!

Still I would like to give you my wishlist... GIVE you because I've 
got no knowledge of coding beyond simple scripting and a bit of 
logical thinking that helped me along so far.

Here I go:

1.) The abbility to rip/copy a encrypted (Copy Protected) DVD. So 
far i've only been able to rip already encryptionless DVD's.

2.) When ripped/copied to hard drive, the ability to burn it back to 
a empty DVD again. This feature has been asked before but i'm going 
to expand it's idea:

Before ripping/copying, what about the choice of ripping to hard 
drive or to empry disc. The disc beeing a DVD or an x-number of 
CDrom's (VCD). Based on these choices different programs could be 
run by mythtv to create either a VCD from a complete 9.7Gb DVD or a 
5.4Gb DVD (Also transcoded down to good size. Perhaps someone can 
download the source code for the windows program "DVD Shrink" and 
get some idea's there? (Trying to think like programmer here. 
Probably looking like a noob in the process.. ;-)

3.) Make the Recording profile, transcode thing, easier to 
understand it's use and how to use it (Alway's a request never a 
demand, i'm not all that great in english) Still finding out the 
correlation between "Default, Live TV, High Quality, Low Quality" 
and "Recording Profiles" and "Transcoders"

Thanks for a great product, I love it and will continue using it.

If there is a need for FTP site access, mirroring, or anything else, 
please see this as an offer.

Mark