[mythtvnz] Damages and archiving

[Wade Maxfield]

Criggie wrote:
> Dean Pemberton wrote:
>> While I'm posting an email.  I've been wondering what people do about
>> archiving shows off.  Do people have cool auto transcoding jobs set up
>> etc?  Or do people just leave them where they are and archive to DVD if
>> they really want to save it.
>>
>> It occurs to me that there are some things which I wouldn't mind having
>> around, but xvid would save a lot more space than mpeg2.
> 
> Nothing so flash... I auto commflag, but don't autotranscode because its
> just not accurate enough.
> 
> I let TV programs fill the drive and expire naturally, but if there's a
> movie we want to keep then I export it with nuvexport, and move the
> resulting xvid file to another drive when its completed.
> 

I'm with Criggie here.  I use nuvexport to archive to my MythVideo drive 
(where other non-recordings live), although I manually set the cut points.

  - Wade