Burning DVDs

Not necessarily - as long as the Pi can access your media over the network. Although you might experience some issues if you are pushing your network speed.

Hopefully we will return to TVs just being audio visual endpoints, and leave the additional functionality - smart or not - to bolt-on boxes.

Quite a few "smart" features on my TV (late 2013) are now obsolete. But I never wanted them anyway.

ATM, I'm happy with it as it is - especially as I don't yet know if the TV has a network connection (I'm, ahem, working right now). I had to tweak the buffering on the Pi because the wireless connection drops out occasionally, but right now, I'm very happy with it all.

yeah.

It's not an input as such. Does it have networking? wifi or Ethernet?

Seems to me you could simplify with a smart telly (or smart DVD player), that would essentially see your server and do internet radio all in the same box...(or two)

Ah. Sorry. Misunderstood your point

I thought you meant he didnt want those folders so didnt want dvdauthor.

I can't remember. I'll have a look when I get home. TBH, I got pretty much the cheapest I could find. An LG which I'm very happy with.

I'm hoping to do away with the DVD player soon. I want to get everything on computer.

I tried to set those folders up manually once and it was a nightmare. DVDStyler at least works. Usually for stuff snarfed from iPlayer, and now the Humax.

In message , Bob Eager writes

Thanks chaps. I have a pile of DVDs I made years ago, and about 50gb of films on my hard drive, which is slowly filling up. Just thought it would be a good idea to transfer films from hard drive to DVD, and certainly don't need anything fancy like menus and stuff. TBH, most films I play on my PC anyway - I just thought it would be convenient to also be able to play them on an ordinary standalone DVD player. Perhaps I am overcomplicating things.

My PC is a laptop, and I don't really want to install a larger hard drive (even if that is possible) just to store films. By films I mean ordinary commercial cinema stuff, most of which are avi or mp4, not home made with a camera or phone.

DVDStyler is pretty easy.

First time round, a bit more work as you have to create a simple menu. Mine just says 'Play'! Then I copy thet to a new file for each new DVD.

Then just drag and drop the mp4 to the window and select Burn.

if you have the time and the inclination, get an old PC chassis and fill it with 2TB disks and install some sort of linux and make yourself a server.

The space for hundreds of DVDS alone is something I dont have, but I can fit a server with 4TB of storage in...

and that's backup of everything as well..

Unfortunately, with ImgBurn you need to be careful which site to download it from - and IIRC, when you use the 'correct' site, you need to make sure to decline various kind offers of additional software. Otherwise, it's fine!

Unchecky can be a useful tool for stopping some of these being installed by default.