[mythtvnz] Frontend access of backend DVD drive?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:47:35 +1300, you wrote:

>yuri wrote:
>>> Personally I rip all our DVDs to a file then store the media.
>> 
>> This seems the technically right thing to do, but what if it's a
>> rented DVD? Who but a saint would have the strength of character to
>> delete the ripped copy when the DVD is returned? I know I wouldn't.
>
>The moral dilemma comes when a legally bought and paid for disk doesn't rip.
>
>Or even worse, the newer DVDs that have a serial number on a piece of 
>paper inside the case, allowing a free download of the digital version 
>of the movie   (Ice Age 3, and Harry Potter the most recent one)
>Great idea, but the file is a WMV and doesn't work in myth.

So far I have found very few WMV files that fail to play with mplayer,
so I have just set MythTV to use mplayer for WMV and ASF files.