[vdr] Re: /video directories on a CD/DVD?

[Robert Sturrock <rns@unimelb.edu.au>]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:07:25AM +0200, Tony Grant wrote:
> Le lun 25/10/2004 à 10:24, Jan Ekholm a écrit :
> 
> > Anyway, one solution for permanent storage is to encode stuff to DVD and
> > burn on a DVD-r or rw for playback on the normal DVD player. This again is
> > far from trivial as the encoding process seems to be *extremely* tricky to
> > get to work, as it involves installing lots of weird applications with
> > very specific versions, and the result may or may not work. So getting the
> > real DVD encoding to work is probably best left for Windows or an OSX
> > machine where the tools are more mature. :)
> 
> It isn't as hard as it seems. Even I can do it =:-D
> 
> vdrsync-0.1.2.2 is what I use. I just follow the instructions in the
> MANUAL file and by magic I now have 4 DVDs.

Does vdrsync do a decent job with maintaining audio/video sync (as its
name would suggest?).  I have only used vdr2dvd.pl which works really
well - it uses ProjectX for demuxing which is known to be very good. 
The drawback is that ProjectX needs java, and java (or awt) needs X
which the linvdr distro (what I use these days) does not have.

Should I try vdrsync instead?  Does vdrsync allow you to easily put
multiple titles on a single DVD?  I would like to be able to put a few
30 minutes episodes of various programmes on one disk and have some
way to navigate between them.

Cheers,

Robert.