Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a video jukebox

2005-02-14 Thread Shawn Willden
Craig Tinson wrote: Shawn Willden wrote: yup.. can do that easily.. remember yer gonna need a *huge* amount of disk space for that kinda sized library Yep. Luckily, 200GB drives are ~$100 (just bought one for $80), and xvid produces results that are good enough for the kids at between 500MB

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a video jukebox

2005-02-14 Thread Christopher Holmes
Just discovered this last night... To customize the menus (from Jarod's Guide): If you simply copy main_settings.xml and mainmenu.xml out of /usr/share/mythtv/ into ~/.mythtv/, you can edit them to your heart's content without screwing up your main install, and the changes will survive an

[mythtv-users] Setting up a video jukebox

2005-02-13 Thread Shawn Willden
I'd like to set up a nice way to rip/transcode/store/retrieve/play movies, and I think MythTV might be a great option. I set up a test system on my laptop (running Debian unstable -- I just installed it with apt-get) and it looks pretty cool, but I get some errors because I don't have a TV

Re: [mythtv-users] Setting up a video jukebox

2005-02-13 Thread Craig Tinson
Shawn Willden wrote: So, I'm looking for a good solution to easily ripping and transcoding movies, then putting them in a nice, browseable repository so the kids can easily pull up what they want to watch without having to touch the disks. Can I use MythTV for that? I like the fact that it