[mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files

Mark Musone mmusone at shatterit.com
Thu Jul 17 18:58:16 EDT 2003


The mythvideo "mplayer" command is defined in the mythconverg database
in the settings table, so you can set it to anything you want to...

-Mark


-----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 5:32 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files

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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