MythTV 0.24 - some comments

[Ben Eisenbraun]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 01:47:34AM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> I haven't tried MythTV yet, but I find that HandBrake works well for
> DVD ripping.

HandBrake is a ripper _and_ transcoder.  From what Rich wrote, it seemed to
me that he wasn't transcoding the DVDs; he was just pulling the contents
off as an ISO.  

I have used vobcopy to grab the bits off DVDs before.  It has mostly been
fine.

dvdisaster has good error correct and can handle the weird bits that some
film studios burn onto DVDs to thwart copying.  http://dvdisaster.net/en/

It's a GUI app though, and it would be easier to implement a CLI tool as
an option into the MythTV interface.

This looks sort of promising: http://dvdbackup.sourceforge.net/
More info on that tool: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dvdbackup

-ben

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