[mythtv-users] mythburn: automagic DVD burning becoming part of Myth soon?

[Donavan Stanley]

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 18:05:38 -0700 (PDT), Dennis Lou <dlou99 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: mark <fairlane at springcom.com>
> >So is programming in C++ so difficult that
> >nobody besides the developers
> >can program a DVD burning module for Myth?
> 
> DVD burning currently requires a half a dozen
> other programs to work.  I personally have been
> resistant to write something because of this.
> However, someone over in the ffmpeg camp has
> gotten PCI/DSI packets working, which is
> what was missing to get their mpeg2 encoder
> working with dvdauthor.  That would really
> help in cutting down on the number of
> external programs.  Once it gets committed
> into libavcodec/libavformat, I might have a go
> at it if I can get some time at it.

Myth doesn't do MPEG2 encoding.  It's done on the hardware, Myth just
saves the stream.