[olug] MythTV and DVD importing questions

[Jay Swackhamer]

I'm not sure about the vob's, but I know that you can use the .iso  
files with mythvideo, and navigate them the same as if you had the dvd  
in a drive.

I just put mine in a subdir under the video directory.

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Quoting Dan Linder <dan at linder.org>:

> I finally took the plunge and I am getting a MythTV system setup using the
> Mythbuntu installation image.  My system is kind of unique in that I don't
> have any tuners in it right now -- it's only a media storage system at the
> moment, and that's led to some questions.
>
> One big reason for this setup is so I can load on our favorite movies and
> then store the DVDs away.  So far this has worked well on most DVDs.
> Unfortunatly the new Pirates of the Caribbean DVDs (specifically #2 and #3)
> have some new copy protection schemens and the built-in DVD importing tools
> of MythTV can't read it.  I found a way around by using DVDFab under Wine so
> I now have all the raw DVD files (.IFO, .VOB, etc) on my HDD.
>
> Questions:
> 1: I would really like to keep the .VOB files for viewing - how do I get
> MythTV to find these files and move them to the /var/lib/mythtv/videos/
> directory?
> 2: If I can get a .ISO built from these files, can I point the MythTV import
> utility at this _file_ and import from ther?
> 3: Is there another option I'm missing?
>
> It would be neat if I could get MythTV to call DVDFab to extract the files
> rather than the internal ripper -- anyone seen that setup?
>
> Dan
>
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