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PVR-350 DVD Playback?
I built a MythTV Box using a PVR-350 as the only video output device. It works great for recording and playing TV back, but unfortunately I haven't been able to playback DVD's with decent performance, since the PVR-350 Framebuffer doesn't seem fast enough for this. However, there's are hardware MPEG-2 decoder, so it seems like it should be relatively easy to play the DVD on the PVR-350 hardware. I haven't been able to find a player that supports this though.
I while back I tried to hack together a very simple DVD player that would do this. I managed to get it to where you could watch the video for the main track on a DVD, but I couldn't get any audio. I think this would be a good feature to add, either to MythDVD, or to Xine or Ogle, unless the feature already exists. Does anyone know if there's already a way to do this? If not, would someone be willing to add this feature? Where would be an appropriate place to do this? I'd be happy to post the code for the player I started somewhere, although it is extremely basic.
--Et764 19:37, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Nevermind, I realized all I needed was an updated version of the X Driver. I can play DVD's great now! --Et764 20:50, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
Et764, you say that you play DVD's great now. What CPU is in your system? How much is MythDVD using? According to this link http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_PVR-350, MythDVD can be made to work the way you have it set up but only with a lot of CPU. I've been wanting to set up a system exactly like your setup, but my availble box is only a PIII-500. Do you think it is do-able?
Feature request
I run MythtV on an EPIA mobo in a design case. The case is lacking a button to eject the DVD tray. An extra option in this plugins menu executing the linux eject command would provide a solution.
non-transcoded DVD rip with menu?
Is it possible to configure the rip such that the entire DVD is ripped, decss'd, and stored for playback with full menu & features? There are cases where I'd like to make the DVD available for playback later without having to reinsert the DVD. That is to say, once the DVD is played once, it should remain on the hard drive and I can store the source media in a secure location such that kids & environmental factors won't cause damage, until such time as I need to delete the rip or experience catastrophic failure of the MythTV hard drives. With hard drives getting relatively cheap, I can see a time in the not too distant future where all of my 200 or so movies will fit on a single raid array (today I could pay $1000 for 4 500GB SATA drives and rip all 200 of my DVD's in a non-transcoded form).
Ioldanach 2006/05/19
Where does the DVD go?
In case of a splitted frontend/backend setup, that is, the backend in the basement and the frontend in the living room, where do you put the DVD for use with MythDVD? Do you put it in the backend or the frontend? It's important to know as I don't see myself running up and down just to watch a DVD and rip it afterwards.
The DVD goes in the frontend. --GBee 22:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to run MTD remotely?
My mythfrontend box isn't very powerful, and thus I'd like to run MTD on another box on the network to relieve the frontend of the load. From what I can see it's possible to change the port that MTD should be contacted on, but not the host - is this possible at all without hacking the code to bits? I was expecting to just set up an NFS share, install MTD and the deps on the server box and then configure the frontend to point at the new machine... --Jonty 2007/04/15
Problem fixed
I installed MythTV on my ubuntu installation but got the following error when I tried to rip a dvd.
titledialog.o: I can't rip, as I have nowhere to put finished files. MythVideo installed?
To solve the problem I looked at the code and found that I did not have the proper config records set in my settings table. The following SQL remedied the problem.
SQL:
insert into settings values ('LocalRipDirectory', '/var/lib/mythdvd', null);
