Ripping Videos for MythTV with AcidRip

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 27, 2008

[ Thanks to Bryan Richard for this
link. ]

“MythTV is an open source DVR solution that supports recording
of live video broadcast and playback of recorded material. It also
supports the direct import of DVD content. But if you’ve got
multiple DVD players spread across different computer systems and a
need to control disk space usage on your MythTV backend, AcidRip
offers a more flexible option.

“DVDs contain a number of files, the most important of which to
the average home user are the transport stream files which contain
the video and audio content. MythTV and its video plugin,
MythVideo, will playback video in a variety of file formats…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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