[mythtv-users] Recording shows to DVD?

Tim Litwiller tim at litwiller.net
Sat Mar 6 09:04:16 EST 2004


Ok, so burning with this script works ok,  and it works to play it on a 
computer - but it doesn't play on a standalone dvd player -  I remember 
someone said something about the sound settings - does that have to be 
set in mythtv and where do I go to change that setting.


Andrew Dodd wrote:

>Quoting "Boyd II, Willy" <wboyd at fulbright.com>:
>
>  
>
>>pvr-250 right?  I don't think you want the dvb stuff then.  I was referring
>>to this script:
>>
>>---------------
>>#!/bin/sh 
>>
>>mkfifo aud0 
>>mkfifo vid0 
>>mkfifo dvdmpg 
>>
>>mpeg2desc -a0 < $1 > aud0 & 
>>mpeg2desc -v0 < $1 > vid0 & 
>>mplex -f 8 -V -o dvdmpg aud0 vid0 & 
>>dvdauthor -o $2 -f dvdmpg 
>>dvdauthor -o $2 -T 
>>
>>rm aud0 
>>rm vid0 
>>rm dvdmpg
>>----------------
>>
>>Pass it the .nuv file and a name for the new dvd project.  You should end
>>up
>>with a directory which you can mkisofs into a ISO then burn it.  (Or are
>>people somehow bypassing the mkisofs step to burn?  lemme know if so...)
>>    
>>
>That's my script.  :)
>
>The requirements are mjpegtools (provides mplex) and dvdauthor (provides
>mpeg2desc and dvdauthor).
>
>mkisofs is needed, but it's possible to pipe the output of mkisofs directly to
>cdrecord without any file being written to disc.
>
>An example:
>----------
>#!/bin/sh
>TSIZE=`mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -q -print-size .`
>mkisofs -dvd-video -udf -V "$1" . | nice -10 cdrecord speed=1 dev=1,1,0 \
>driveropts=burnfree -dao -v tsize="$TSIZE"s -
>
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