[mythtv] Patch to fix mythvideo + clean up interface

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Mon Feb 24 09:34:12 EST 2003


On Sunday 23 February 2003 11:21 pm, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> I don't know about anyone else, but the mythvideo interface has never
> worked for me, so I wrote this patch to fix it.  It includes:
>
> - Fixed "profile" code so that the file list actually gets built!
> - Changed the name of "mythexplorer-settings.txt" to
> "mythvideo-settings.txt"
> - Put in code to strip the file extension for display in the file list
> (so file "The Matrix.avi" shows up as "The Matrix")
> - Put in code so that parent directory always shows up as "(Up one
> level)" in the list, instead of the actual name of the parent directory
> - Put in code to prevent traversing above the directory specified as
> "StartDir" (wouldn't want the wife & kids browsing through /var, /etc
> !!)
> - Updated the default "videomenu.xml" file to invoke mythvideo vs.
> mythexplorer (*is* there a mythexplorer??)
>
> That's all.  Please post comments, complaints, suggestions or kudos.

Could you send your mythvideo-settings.txt file?  If you modified it at all 
from CVS, it didn't get included in the diff because of the name change..

Otherwise, looks good -- do I hear someone volunteering to maintain mythvideo? 
=)

Isaac


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