[mythtv-users] Archiving Shows to DVD

[Matt]

On 8/19/05, Marius Schrecker <masch at tiscali.no> wrote:

> In other words: older (pre 1998) European DVD's probably don't include AC-3....
> 
> 
> Please, please, PLEASE remember that the US of A isn't the ONLY country
> in the world (no offence intended Matt).
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Marius
> 

None taken!  =D  I do understand that every country has to have
different standards (actually, I don't understand that at all but I
know it exists anyway).  Either way, my DVD player would never play
any audio with the mythburn scripts when I used them last winter
because the sound was MPEG2 PCM I believe and I had to manually
configure the DVD player to play that sound, but then none of my
nornal DVDs would play unless I switched back (and it was a pain to
do).  Also, it won't play the audio by default in Windows Media Player
either.  After doing some research, I found that AC3 was a DVD
standard, and I thought was important to announce in this thread, not
taking into account that there might be different "standards" across
the globe.  I mentioned it on the the mythburn thread on the knoppmyth
forums several times, but no one thought it was that important at the
time.

> I hope to include optional audio conversion in the next mythburn tarball
> this weekend. I'd expect it to be used for createing NTSC DVDs; as
> stated above, PAL Players must support mpeg2 audio, with ac3 optional
> while for NTSC it's the other way round.
> 
> Bye, Martin

Excellent!!!  I'm SOOOO happy to hear this!  I've been waiting for a
true DVD archiving solution for a long time and I've loved the idea of
the mythburn scripts, especially the fact that it can be done via
mythweb, but they were never a good solution for me due primarily to
the audio problems.  But, what I've been doing recently is almost
better... I've been transcoding to MPEG4 (XVid) and saving like 25
half-hour shows to disk rather than 4.

Good Luck!  Maybe this will eventually become an official part of
mythtv/mythweb? ;-)

Thanks!
Matt