[mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files

David A. Mason damason at redshift.com
Thu Jul 17 18:14:41 EDT 2003


Autoload would be luxury, to be true. But I'd still be happy just to be able
to select the disk and then a file from it in MythVideo's interface.

DAM

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of John Rives
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 4:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythVideo Feature Request - Offline Files


That would be just as good or better for my purposes! Having an autoload of
some sort as part of Mythvideo would be incredible. Something to bridge the
gap between local disk centric design and DVD/Divx/Xvid player design.

> Actually, either instead or in addition to the below, I think it would 
> be
a
> great convenience to be able to pop in a CD containing a movie file or
files
> and to be able to select its filename from a list or sublist in 
> mythvideo, without having to do any prep of having added symlinks for 
> the particular movies to the directory.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of John Rives
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>
>
> 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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