[mythtv-users] Using DVD VIDEO_TS directories on disk with MythTV?
Urban Nightmare
urban at inetdesign.org
Fri Jan 20 19:50:28 UTC 2006
Todd Ignasiak wrote:
>
>
> On 1/19/06, *Steve Hodge* <stevehodge at gmail.com
> <mailto:stevehodge at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 1/20/06, Todd Ignasiak <ignasiak at gmail.com
> <mailto:ignasiak at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > The file layout is something like:
> >
> > /XMas_2002/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB}
> > /Wedding/VIDEO_TS/{*.IFO, *.VOB}
> >
> > Where the top directory is the name of the DVD, the second is always
> > VIDEO_TS, and the DVD data files are below that. Ideally, I
> would like to
> > treat the top dir as the title, and associate a JPEG image with
> that, and
> > have a view launched that treats VIDEO_TS as a DVD.
>
> You could try having a single directory somewhere with links to the
> vob files in each subdirectory. You could write a shell script to
> create the links automatically from the top directory names.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> The VOBs all use the same filenames, so there would be conflicts.
> But, I guess the links could use different names. But, then it would
> break the relationship between the IFO file and the VOB data. So, DVD
> menus and language support would be broken.
>
> If I go this route, I think I would change my DVD's to single file
> videos, either one huge VOB, MPEG2 file, or H.264 file. The
> downside there is that I lose DVD Menus, chapters, etc.
It sounds like your trying to do what I wanted. What I ended up doing
was making an ISO of the files so that they would be ready to burn to a
DVD and play in any old player. But instead I just copied the ISO to my
video dir and in myth I setup how to play the ISO's using xine
(Utilities&setup/Setup/Media Settings/Video Settings/File Types). In
File types I added a new extension of iso with a command of "xine -pfhq
--no-splash dvd:/%s/" (no quotes).
Once all of that was done I could play the iso just like it was a dvd.
Hope that helps.
Stephen
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