Fwd: Re: lg dvd recorder disks wont mount

[James Takac]

On Tuesday 28 August 2007 12:46:29 Les Gray wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 August 2007 11:41:50 James Takac wrote:
> >  I have just such a device. Is an A828 AverMedia device linux compatable?
> > That's the one I have.
>
> Yep, it's advertised as such by the manufacturer -
> http://www.avermedia.com/cgi-bin/products_digitvtuner_dvbshybridA828.asp
>
> A good place for checking out linux compatibility for this kind of hardware
> is linuxtv.org (in the wikis). This is the website of the dvb/v4l kernel
> developers.
>
> > And one of the reasons I do as I do is it frees up
> > the pc for other things for longer periods. It takes a fraction of the
> > time to grab the mpeg file from the disk than to do a capture via the
> > 'puter. Currently am setup to record 2 movies whilst I convert a number
> > of others
>
> If this setup works for you, then stick with it :)
>
> As far as digital TV goes, I find the following workflow does the job
> really well -
>
> 1. Use dvb-utils to tune the desired channel on the command line, then dump
> the stream to a .ts file in another terminal window. Press Ctrl+C to stop
> recording.
>
> 2. Edit and demultiplex the .ts file using the Java-based Project X. This
> is a brilliant little app, which you can download from doom9.net
>
> 3. Remultiplex to DVD-compliant .mpg using mplex (part of mjpeg-tools).
>
> 4. Author DVD using DVD Styler. It's a crime that this isn't in the Ubuntu
> repos (I got it from debianmultimedia.org), because I think it's the best
> DVD authoring app linux has ATM. The ones which are in the repos are either
> buggy or unnecessarily complicated to use.
>
> 5. Burning can be done from within DVD Styler, unless you're using
> already-used rewritable media. A bug in growisofs (which seems to come and
> go) causes the burn to fail in this case. Then it's just a matter of
> telling DVD Styler to create an .iso image which you can then burn to DVD
> using k3b or you're favourite burning app.
>
> If you want to squeeze everything on to a DVD5 then mencoder is a good tool
> to use. But I find myself doing this less and less these days, seeing that
> Dual Layer media are only about $4.30 a pop, and it's not as if I'm
> recording TV every day. Plus I couldn't be arsed re-encoding everything to
> divx/xvid, and my standalone player doesn't support those formats anyway.
>
> The beauty of having a Linux PVR is that you can use the command line to
> record. The Windows way of using the software that came with your USB
> device or TV card means that you're depending on that app not to crash
> while you're recording, something which is far less likely to happen (if
> not impossible) with a terminal window, which has negligible system
> overhead.
>
> Les

Hi Les

thx 4 the response. Will have to look more closely at much of what u put 
forward here. Have some degree of familiarity with projectx from the windows 
side of things. As far as reading the disks is concerned, that has been 
solved. Turned out I had to finalize the disks via the dvr forst b4 ubuntu 
could  mount them and read them. U've given me a lil to mul over and check 
out

James