That was what I was thinking with the XML file to control what happens. You could then make the UI generic and pass the selected files to mythburn or someother fancy thing.

I'd actually like to be able to pick multiple recordings in the "Watch Recordings" screen and then pass the selected list into another program (such as burn UI). I think this would be a much neater solution rather than having lots of interfaces that all appear similar to "Watch Recordings" screen.

There is an "add to playlist" capability already in the recordings menus. Just need a "Burn Playlist to DVD" option.

True. There was talk a few months ago about allowing recordings to be selected there, and the User Jobs feature to process them.

There is the problem of enabling or disabling cutlist usage on a per-recording basis, though. Plus, I like the MythBurnUI feature of the disk "gas guage" showing how full the disk is - I reckon that is applicable to burning audio CDs, MP3 data disks, et c.

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if the new version of mythburn allows you to select videos PLEASE cant see an easy way of getting the gas guage to work unless you use fixed bitrate encoding for the file conversions. ??. A two stage aproach would help, processed files ie cut recoding files and mpeg encoded videos could be stored in the video folder and then select them from the video folder at a known size requadrent factors would then not need adjusting ????

Can you set up a recording profile say called 'to be saved' which after the cutlist is set up would apply the cutlist and save it as a mpeg2ps recording to videos folder and then remove the origonal file. or maybee from the player press a button to prepare for dvd ? just an idea ???

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I've started work on a new version and its progressing very quickly. Think I rather like Python (only been using it for 3 days!).

I've also managed to build in a full theme based menu creation so you can create your own themes etc. I'll also be including VIDEO encoding as well.

Do you people like/use the sub-menu with the chapter points etc. or would you prefer just a straight click to play type menu?

I'm also basing my development against the latest SVN version of MythTV as I dont want to re-develop this all again in a few weeks when the new version comes out!

I never use the sub-menus with chapter points, so a simple click-to-play would be fine with me. I also agree that it would be nice to have the option to bypass a menu altogether.

One other option, though it's not very important so please only do it if you have time, is to allow sorting of the titles. It appears that they currently sort according to date, but sometimes I'd like to sort them differently.

Thanks for your work on this.

Just realized it is possible to re-sort the titles, so please ignore that last feature request. By the way, spit2k1, I run the latest svn of mythtv/mythweb, so I'd be happy to test your new scripts. I've been revising the scripts with each relevant commit to mythtv cvs, but it's getting harder and harder to keep up with.

My only wish is that MythBurn were able to handle HDTV programs and burn a DVD from them. I realize what the problems are -- I'm not sure anyone has a method to do this even manually with the tools we have in Myth. It just amazes me how the makers of mplayer et. al. can be so asleep at the switch when it comes to processing MPEG2-TS streams.

If I ever figure out a set of commands that can create a burn file manually, I'll contribute it to MythBurn.

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I quite like the submenu with chapter points. Please at least leave that option in. Thanks.

D'oh! I guess that's why I'm having trouble? I've been thinking that I've got something messed up because I can't burn HD programs to DVD. I guess it's not just me? I get an endless log of syncpoint error messages.
What's the best work-around for now?

About all you can do is use a whole stack of linux programs (which have nasty conflicting pre-requisites) or transfer the file to a Windoze box and use something like HDTVtoMPEG2 and Nero. It really sucks. I rarely get a DVD I'm happy with. (Sound sync drifting is the biggest problem.)

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Lets not turn this into a HD2DVD thread. You don't want to tick Cecil off, he can be a bear... Start a new topic if need be and if a solution if found, then provide spit2k1 or jams with the info.

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When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I feature I would really value would be the ability to create DVDs from mpeg2's recorded at 352x480. This is one of the standard resolutions supported on NTSC DVDs. I record all of my TV shows at 352x480, 2,200kbps using the PVR-250 and the quality is quite acceptable on my 50" samsumg DLP when played back from the MediaMVP myth front-end.

The nice thing about using 352x480 at 2200kbps is that you can fit 4 hours of programming on 1 DVD .



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Ok, I didn't know we had those!
But before getting into that, should the non-HD capability of the current scripts be documented somewhere? If so, I can start a HD2DVD thread (or look for some others) with the goal of creating a WIKI topic so that people won't waste their time trying to get nuvexport, mythburn, and the Knoppmyth DVD menu to work, if in fact, they don't work for HD. I think a lot of people just assume that it should work, and if it doesn't, I must be doing something wrong. Hence my "D'oh!" above.

You can't scare me with that Cecil dude. His bark is lots worse than his byte. He's just a cute fuzzy penguin at heart. Besides, my post was ON topic because this thread is a request for features! Ha!

But a separate topic is a good idea. It's also a good idea to mention somewhere in this project that it WON'T create DVDs from ATSC broadcasts, even though from the title you might expect it would. After all, MPEG is MPEG, right? (Well, apparently not...)

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