[mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files

John Rives john.rives at comcast.net
Thu Jul 17 17:32:23 EDT 2003


I had thought about doing that at first. Although, is it possible to have
MythVideo launch a shell script instead of trying to launch mplayer? If so,
I could create a script that opened the appropriate file, launched mplayer,
requested CD 2, and so on... the file that mythvideo would see would just be
the script. The symlink would be something link this, correct?

ln -s /dev/cdrom1/part1.avi /var/lib/mythvideo/part1.avi

So, when mythvideo goes through and adds videos to the db it sees this and
treats it as a video file, even if the cd is not inserted. When the CD is
in, if you launch that video it plays from the CD.

This may be OT, but how do you automount cdrom drivers in RH9?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph A. Caputo" <jcaputo1 at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:07 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> > [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of John Rives
> > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 2:18 PM
> > To: Discussion about mythtv
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files
> >
> >
> > Please forgive me if this has already been covered, in my searching I
did
> > not find a solution.
> >
> > Would it be possible / could someone point me in the right direction to
> > enable MythVideo to work with offline content? I have many videos
archived
> > to CD that I would like to include in MythVideo database (browse through
> > them), but when selected be prompted to insert the appropriate CD to
begin
> > watching the video. In addition to this, spanning would be nice - if a
> > specific video has two CD's, for it to prompt for CD 1, launch the
player,
> > then prompt for CD 2, launch the player, the exit back into MythVideo.
It
> > would be incredible to keep 50-60 files available in mythvideo
> > for on-demand
> > (live on hard drive), and have others available upon request by entering
> > appropriate CD (have it know the filename).
>
> Well, I can't help you with spanning or *quite* the feature list you
request
> (short of saying 'submit a patch'), but you could create a symlink to your
> CD/DVD mount point in your mythvideo storage directory.  It wouldn't
prompt
> you if the right CD wasn't mounted, but at least you'd be able to maintain
> your movies in the mythvideo DB, and if the CD was mounted, play the ones
on
> that CD.
>
> -JAC
>
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