[vdr] Re: OT: Record a DVD on the fly ?

[Rene Bartsch <rene@bartschnet.de>]

If you do not need "real" DVDs with menu, etc. you can simply burn the 
VDR-directories with iso9660-format (the combination cdrecord-proDVD and 
Xcdroast 0.98pre10 works great). But they only can be read with VDR.

Another possibility is to do the same, but reformat VDR's MPEG-PES to 
MPEG-PS and create new index. MPEG-PS is the standard-format of DVD and 
most newer DVD-Player should be able to browse the directories. And the 
new index keeps compatibility to VDR.

Everything other has the problem there is a) no authoring-software for 
linux yet (I'm working to get it run with wine) and the kernel threatens 
all DVD-/CD-Rom-drives as read-only. That's why it is so uncomfortable 
to use packet-writing with UDF (I hope the kernel developers will look 
for that problem).

But if you just want to burn files on data-DVD you can do it 
automatically with a shell-script:

VDR-files -> mplextools -> genindex -> determine volume of files -> 
mkisofs -> cdrecord-proDVD

Rene


Hennebert Philippe wrote:
> Hello Axel,
> 
> I know very little about linux, even less about vdr (I don't have a DVB-S
> card yet), and almost nothing about DVD-Rs.
> But I'm a Mad Video Collector (TM), who owns 17000 movies on VHS and who'd
> like to start recording on DVD-R (true Video DVD readable on standalone DVD
> players).
> 
> Are you saying that you can convert any VDR recording to MPEG2 burnable onto
> DVD? Were you able to automate the process? Would it possible to automate
> the process
>  	analog source -> capture -> mpeg2 encoding (on the fly or not) ->
> burning onto DVD
> 
> Which combination or hw/sw (DVB-S or analog capture card) let you capture on
> the fly onto DVD-R on windows? Can you capture on the fly then finalize the
> dvd and get something readable on standalone DVD players?
> 
> Sorry for the newbie questions, but these are quite important for me (I'm
> impatient to have 10,000 DVDs lying around instead of 20,000 VHS ;-) )
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Philippe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Axel Gruber [mailto:axelgruber3@gmx.de]
> Sent: Saturday, 27 April, 2002 15:08
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] OT: Record a DVD on the fly ?
> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I´m still using maksofs to create a ISO-File and a special versoin
> of cdrecord to create a DVD-R with my VDR.
> 
> Just a Question:
> 
> Is there a way or a new software to write a DVD "on the fly" like
> on a Windows-Machine ?
> 
> CU
> 
> Axel
> 
> 
> 
> 
>