[ubuntu-mythtv] MythArchive

[Nick Fox]

To answer your questions:

As for Speed: That is the normal speed there are several factors to this
amount of time this process takes mainly transcoding. The conversion from
mpg to native dvd format takes a big chunk of time depending on the video
you are recording. If you plan on just archiving shows to watch again later
on MythTV then you can switch to a native archive and the process will take
much less time.

As for changing the DVD drive:  From the main menu, Utilities / Setup >
Setup > Media Settings > Archive Settings > General, on one of the screens
in this menu has the DVD burner on it, usually defaulted at /dev/dvdrw
however this is not always the device node for your system, many times, even
on my own system, the device node is in-fact setup by udev as /dev/cdrom

If you are in the US you should default your DVD buring to NTSC

-Nick

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Richard Brook <byronf16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am new to MythTV. I am trying to use MythArchive to write my Recordings
> to DVD.
>
> When I go into the Frontend menus, to Create DVD, the Log shows that the
> process is taking at least half an hour to an hour.
>
> I have a 3Ghz P4, 2Gb ram, an Nvidia Gforce 6200 OC PCI graphics card,
> three 250Gb Sata HD's, a Plextor Internal 716A DVD writer, a Samsung DVD Rom
> player, and a USB LG GSA-E60L External DVD writer.
>
> While watching the Log, the process ends when Mytharchive tries to write to
> /dev/dvd and keeps saying that the Tray is Open. There is blank media in
> each DVD Writer. I thought I saw a configuration screen identifing the 716A
> as the default DVD Writer, but I cannot find that config screen. I was going
> to switch to the LG DVD writer, but I do not know how to do that.I wrote an
> ISO image, with MythArchive, and it completed successfully.
>
> I would like to know how to Speed up the process MythArchive uses to write
> a DVD and also how to change the default DVD writer.
>
> Also, should I be using PAL or NTSC
>
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