This is probably a gross hack but thought it is still handy.

I found an easy way to archive your .nuv files to CD or DVDs and make your knoppmyth box replay them easily.

I use a knoppmyth R4V5 box with 2 PVR-250's and no transcoding.

Using samba, I copy the .nuv files over from the knoppmyth box to my WinXP box, change the extension to .mpg, and just burn them to a blank DVD with Easy CD 5.

I made modifications to the /usr/share/mythtv/knoppmyth.xml file to add the lines after the "MPEG4 CD" button:

<button>
<type>MPEG2 DVD HACK</type>
<text>MPEG2 DVD HACK</text>
<action>EXEC mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv /dev/scd0</action>
</button>

Obviously, its just a data DVD with a .mpg file on it and won't play in a normal DVD player but it does play just fine in the knoppmyth box and frees up space in the archive.




Here is my /usr/share/mythtv/knoppmyth.xml file:

<mythmenu name="KnoppMyth">

<button>
<type>Backup</type>
<text>Backup KnoppMyth</text>
<action>EXEC sudo /usr/local/bin/mythbackup</action>
</button>

<button>
<type>Restore</type>
<text>Restore KnoppMyth</text>
<action>EXEC sudo /usr/local/bin/mythrestore</action>
</button>

<button>
<type>Start Motion</type>
<text>Start Motion</text>
<action>EXEC sh /usr/local/bin/start_motion.sh</action>
</button>

<button>
<type>Stop Motion</type>
<text>Stop Motion</text>
<action>EXEC sh /usr/local/bin/stop_motion.sh</action>
</button>

<button>
<type>MPEG4 CD</type>
<text>MPEG4 CD</text>
<action>EXEC sh /usr/local/bin/divx.sh</action>
</button>

<button>
<type>MPEG2 DVD HACK</type>
<text>MPEG2 DVD HACK</text>
<action>EXEC mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv /dev/scd0</action>
</button>

<button>
<type>Halt </type>
<text>Halt </text>
<action>EXEC /usr/bin/sudo halt</action>
</button>
<button>

<type>Reboot </type>
<text>Reboot </text>
<action>EXEC /usr/bin/sudo reboot</action>
</button>

</mythmenu>

Just burn the disk, pop in KnoppMyth box, press the button and go!

I use a marker to write the name of the show on the outside of the disk to remember whats on it.

What could be easier?

Andrew Lynch

How do you get around the filesize limit? An ISO filesystem doesn't handle the big files i.e. > 2Gb ...

Easy CD 5 writes DVDs with files larger than 4 GB with the UDF format. Its handled automatically.

Andrew Lynch

If you use samba to copy over the contents of /myth/pretty, you'll see that the mythlink.sh script is doing all the renaming of .nuv files for you.

If your /myth/pretty folder is empty, you need the MythPrettyFix detailed at the wiki:

http://knoppmythwiki.homelinux.org/inde ... hPrettyFix

Cool! Thanks!

Andrew Lynch

PS, KnoppMyth Rocks!