AW: [mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Martin Bene]

>  	Sounds good that you've got something functional.  

Yes, I'm quite happy with what I've got at the moment, looks like this
is actually working :-)

> I've never 
> tried to get mythburn to go as the requirements are a bit 
> vague.  It's set up for knoppmyth, no?

Yes, but using it in a different environment shouldn't be much of an
issue; I'm running it on gentoo for example. The install stript had to
be tweaked to skip the debian specific dependancy checks. Once I've got
the functionality in a reasonable state the next step would be getting
rid of anything distribution specific; currently there's a couple of
places where pathnames are hardcoded. Putting these in a central config
file and setting them correctly on install should pretty much fix
things.

Requirements for mythburn where bad before I added projectx, now they're
even worse:-(

 - java runtime
 - projectx
 - Xvfb or local X server
 - mjpegtools
 - transcode (get thumbnails from the video streams, future use for
tcrequant, make gop index)
 - imageMagick (image manipulation for DVD menus)
 - dvdauthor 
 - perl
 - mysql (uses mysql commandline to get some info from the database)
 - mythweb (link to user interface via web/php hooks is added to mythweb
menu)
 - bc (some frame ==> timecode coversions)
 - cdrtools (for creating iso images)
 - dvd+rw-tools (for burning to DVD)

Beware of potential ImageMagic + dvdauthor version mismatches: dvdauthor
0.6.11 doesn't like ImageMagick > 6.0.7.x So you either have to stick
with the older version of ImageMagick or use a 0.6.12 prerelease of
dvdauthor.

User interface is completely seperate from funtionality; the php stuff
is just used to build a single commandline which is used to start the
actual DVD creation.

>  	Does it require the database to extract the cutlists?  I'm just 
> thinking in terms of making maybe a partial script that can 
> exist without the whole mythbox.  Just a .sql/nuv combo would be
great.

There's a seperate script that does the commerical cutting (mpegcut-px).
Most of the code comes from mpeg2cut. It doesn't access the datbase
itself but expects to find the cutlist in a file [which mythburn
generates anyway for use as chapter markers]. Format is just what you'd
get from "select cutlist from recorded", the script rewrites that to
create a projectx cutlist.


Bye, Martin