Re: [mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?
(It was me who made the original request...) One file, or a VIDEO_TS folder would be fine. Either way, the ability to seamlessly copy DVDs to the hard drive, and be able to later call them up for viewing, is what I want. I may also want the ability to compress (Mpeg-4 ?) the video. Is it possible to keep the DVD menus and such, but have the video format different than Mpeg-2 ? Another nice feature would be to be able to strip out unwanted audio tracks, but keep the menus. As recording TV is a secondary need at this point, I am beginning to wonder if there might be a better software solution for what I want to do with DVDs. -Randy On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, nate s wrote: The op said he wanted it in one file... Would it work to just do dd if=/dev/dvd of=outfile.iso? I have done this many times with CDs and it works well. It makes an iso file that can be mounted with the loopback, or just played directly. I don't know how it would work with a UDF dvd. -Nate On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 08:17:25 -0600, Kevin Hulse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Joakim Kolsjö [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't know anything about that, but if you want a good ripper in general try dvd::rip, http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/ I knew I had put this someplace safe... Here's that script, it uses tccat (part of transcode) and not vobcopy. This dumps it's data in the $PWD where you run it and assumes that the DVD is mounted on /dvd. It works pretty well. However, double layer discs can eat up space in a hurry. #!/bin/bash mkdir VIDEO_TS cd VIDEO_TS BUP=$(find /dvd | grep bup ) IFO=$(find /dvd | grep ifo ) FILES=$BUP $IFO ###Grab the unencrypted files for file in $FILES do echo $file ###--- strip the directory name off and force to uppercase dest=$( echo $file | sed 's/.*\///g' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' ) cp $file $dest done ###Grab the VOBS VOBS=$( find /dvd | grep vob ) for vob in $VOBS do echo $vob ###--- strip the directory name off and force to uppercase dest=$( echo $vob | sed 's/.*\///g' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' ) echo tccat -i $vob $dest tccat -i $vob $dest ###--- The real important bit done -- On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:50:31 -0500 (EST), Randy Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned this in a different email, but I'm not sure if people read it all (it was a long message :) ) Anyway... I'm looking for a way to put in a DVD, and have Myth rip the whole disk, just as it is, and make a single image file of it (Including menus, and extras). I then want to be able to play back that DVD at any time. DVD Jukebox is what I am thinking. Any ideas? -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- It helps the car, in terms of end user complexity and engineering, that a car is not expected to suddenly become wood chipper at some ||| arbitrary point as it's rolling down the road. / | \ This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Dual tuners with different channels
I never got any responses from this question. Does anyone have any experiences with a similar setup? Any ideas if this could be made to work? thanks, -Randy On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Randy Carpenter wrote: I am looking into the possibility of replacing the DVR from my cable company with a MythTV setup. I have Digital cable, so I would need to use a digital box, and control it via an IR Blaster. There are a couple questions I have about how this would work: 1. Is there a way for MythTV to detect if the cable box power is on, and turn it on if necessary? Simply leaving the cable box on all the time is not necessarily an option, as sometimes the cable company uploads firmware upgrades, and that causes the box to reboot, and sometimes shutdown. 2. I want dual tuners, but don't want to hassle with 2 boxes. If I connect a digital box with an IR blaster (giving me channels 2-78 analog, and 100-300+ digital), and I have a second tuner card with just analog cable (2-78) coming in, can MythTV be configured to handle this? Recording digital channels would need to default to the first tuner, but the first tuner would also need to be able to record analog stations, in the event that 2 analog stations needed to be recorded at the same time. I understand that I cannot have dual tuners on digital stations. This is ok, as I record very little from the digital stations. thanks, -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] RAID5 ATA IDE hardware card recommendations for mythbackend machine
3Ware. Pretty much the best supported hardware IDE or SATA raid card. The new 9000 series cards are supposedly very fast (SATA only, though) -Randy On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Andrew Plumb wrote: Hi Everyone, For those who do use hardware RAID5 cards for ATA IDE drives, which cards have you (not) had success with, for use in a mythtvbackend machine? Or in any Linux-based machine for that matter? I'm pondering picking up something like a Promise FastTrak SX4000. Thanks! Andrew. -- If you don't know what to do, do something. ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Dual tuners with different channels
1. Is there a way for MythTV to detect if the cable box power is on, and turn it on if necessary? Simply leaving the cable box on all the time is not necessarily an option, as sometimes the cable company uploads firmware upgrades, and that causes the box to reboot, and sometimes shutdown. It can't necessarily detect if the cable box is on. Does your cable box have descrete codes for turning on and off or just a toggle code. If descrete, you could just send the power on command as part of your channel changing script. No discrete code is available. If there is no way to tell what the state of power is, then I might be out of luck, and not able to even use MythTV. I will be stuck with the crappy cable DVR (yuck). How do others deal with this issue with cable boxes and satellite receivers? 2. I want dual tuners, but don't want to hassle with 2 boxes. If I connect a digital box with an IR blaster (giving me channels 2-78 analog, and 100-300+ digital), and I have a second tuner card with just analog cable (2-78) coming in, can MythTV be configured to handle this? Recording digital channels would need to default to the first tuner, but the first tuner would also need to be able to record analog stations, in the event that 2 analog stations needed to be recorded at the same time. I understand that I cannot have dual tuners on digital stations. This is ok, as I record very little from the digital stations. Yes, this can be done. One caveat, if you are using DataDirect you will probably need to create two lineups. One for the analog channels and one for the digital channels. You may need to use different zipcodes (just use the next closest zip code to you) in order to create two cable lineups. There are 2 separate lineups for my cable company for digital, and non-digital, so that should not be an issue. Is MythTV smart enough to handle the 2 different lineups? For example, if it needs to record an analog station, and a digital station, will it know to use the analog-only tuner for the analog station and the digital for the digital station? There are many scenarios I can think of that could seriously confuse the software, since there are different channels on each tuner. -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Mythvideo not working.
Well, I have figured out a little bit more. I had chosen all of the titles that were listed in MythDVD to transcode. What I did not know is that the first one is all of the titles concatenated into one .vob file. The remaining titles were each title (there are multiple episodes of a certain TV series on this disk) So what I ended up with was everything encoded twice. Now that I know that, it is easier to deal with. The naming convention for the files is a bit strange, though. The first file is tagged with the name of the disk. The first separate title is labeled as Title 2. Confusing as this is Episode 1 Also, does anyone know how to input text properly on the for the name of the titles? If I try to type any numbers, it prints out a bunch of gibberish characters. I'd like to be able to label them TV Show - Ep. 101 , ... 102, etc. I still would like to see a Rip whole DVD including menus, and features, along with a properly working IMDB lookup (which doesn't work for my DVDs with multiple episodes) If anyone has any further suggestions, I would appreciate it. thanks, -Randy I have FC3 with mythtv installed via ATrpms. I've been playing with it, and have a bunch of problems. The main one right now, is Mythvideo does not appear to be working properly. I put in a DVD that has multiple episodes of a TV show. I told mythdvd to rip/transcode each of the 6 different titles, in perfect, which it did. Nothing shows up in mythvideo. The files are on the hard drive in the mythvideo directory. If I go to manage recordings they all show up, but say 0 minutes. Another oddity is that the 5 ripped files take up 14GB of space, which is about double that of what the DVD actually has. And this is without any menus or extras. Also, why isn't there an option to copy the whole DVD as one big file, so you could play it back later with menus and extras? That is what I would prefer. Couldn't there be a make image of DVD option? I'll save my other issues for separate emails... thanks, -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] DVD Ripping ?
I mentioned this in a different email, but I'm not sure if people read it all (it was a long message :) ) Anyway... I'm looking for a way to put in a DVD, and have Myth rip the whole disk, just as it is, and make a single image file of it (Including menus, and extras). I then want to be able to play back that DVD at any time. DVD Jukebox is what I am thinking. Any ideas? -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: New MythTV Hardware Review
Problem is the ATSC standard is for just a few nations. USA, Canada, Mexico, South Korea and some smaller places, all under pressure from the USA to adopt the broadcast flag. So you will have to hunt to get your card. More to the point, if you can't sell cards into the USA and Canadian markets, you won't make them. The best you could hope for is a card that when sold in the USA is locked up, but you can buy an unlocked version outside. Best to buy your card today. What are the chances of us being able to get a card that will accept ATSC over cable (using a cablecard) ? That, along with satellite, have to be the vast majority of the market. Do many people really use OTA antennas for HDTV? For me, personally, it would be useless, as I only have 1 local station that would even be broadcasting in high def. Another thought I had: What about using FireWire to capture? Many HD receivers have FireWire outputs. In fact, if I remember correctly, the FCC requires cable companies to supplied FireWire-equipped boxes for the purpose of being able to record. -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-500 Dual Tuner
So does anyone have an idea as to whether or not the PVR-500 is supported? Is it too early to tell? -Randy ___ mythtv-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
