[mythtv-users] Guidance on burning recordings to CD/DVD

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David Whyte wrote:

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>Phill,
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>I started to produce DVD's of my recordings and they have been
>brilliant so far and as you know, I am no linux pro.
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>>From 10, 000 ft, here goes (bear in mind I only have DVB-T tuners):
>1) Record in TS, I find this makes nuvexport and cutpoints much more accurate.
>2) Flag the commercials manually.
>3) Export using nuxvexport to DVD.  This happens just slower than
>realtime for me but I have a sempron 2400, which isn't too beefy.
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Same here, with a 2200


>4) Copy MPEG2 file to my windows laptop.
>5) Create a project using DVDStyler, drag the movies into place, link
>buttons to titles etc.
>6) Create the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS using DVDStyler.
>7) Burn DVD using CDBurnerXP.
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>As I say, the quality is amazing.  The commercial cuts are dead where
>I put them and the only thing I have noticed is the odd audio squeel
>where the cut was made.
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>I would do the DVD authoring on my linux box and create an ISO then
>drag that to my laptop where the DVD burner is, but DVDStyler was
>segfaulting on me so I grabbed the Windows version of it.
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I must have been lucky, as DVDStyler worker under linux for me.


>As an aside, I know there has been speak of MythBurn etc, but I
>haven't tried it ever as it seemed to involved.  Surely though, the
>above 7 steps could be automated (or at least the authoring steps) a
>little to help this process by. 
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That's what the mythburn scripts do.  They use call dvdauthor to create 
the DVD.


The only trouble, (not resolved yet), is that the 16:9 video is being 
stretched vertically to fill the 4:3 screen