Comment 6 for bug 69651

Jeremy, thanks for your reply. I am using the standard ubuntu edgy binaries for mythtv, transcode, ffmpeg, et al, and installing transcode and the xvid libraries allows me to rip at the good and medium settings.

I understand your point on the suggests, and maybe that is indeed the right way to go. However, one counter argument is this: the default mythdvd plugin uses transcode and a default setting in mythdvd is enabled to use xvid (as opposed to divx, I believe). So, if a new user just installs mythdvd without installing transcode and libxvidcore, then the default out-of-the-box settings do not work and hence mythdvd does not work. True, one can always change the settings and encode into a different format, but presumably at that point the user would know that other packages would need to be installed for that different format to work. But, for a working out-of-the-box mythdvd with no changes to the default settings, maybe requiring transcode and libxvidcore might be appropriate. I think the same argument might apply to the default path issue. Certainly one can change the path and make any necessary directories for that different path, but the _default_ path does not work. I think perhaps the default path should be one that will exist on any myth install, e.g. /var/lib/mythdvd or /var/lib/mythvideo as the case may be.