[mythtv-users] watching recordings on windows via samba share tomyth box

Dave Ansell dave at theansells.com
Sat Mar 26 09:42:38 UTC 2005


Thanks Kent.

I was trying to figure this out myself with limited success.   It also gets 
me round the issue of large file support (lack of) on Fedora FC3.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "thunderducks" <thunderducks at gmail.com>
To: <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:47 AM
Subject: [mythtv-users] watching recordings on windows via samba share 
tomyth box


>I thought I would share this hack in case anyone else was looking to do 
>this:
> I've installed the VLC client on my laptop and was happy with the way
> the way recordings played via the samba share to my recordings
> directory.  The one thing that was missing for me was a decent
> description of the hard to decipher file names.  Enter the mythweb
> recordings page which has a beautiful layout of your recordings with
> descriptions etc. So I thought, why not hack the php code to redirect
> to local samba file - so here's the process I went through to get that
> done.
>
>
> 1. on the windows machine I installed the latest version of VideoLan
> Client (vlc)  www.videolan.org
> 2. on the windows machine I registered a new protocol called vlc.  I
> did this by creating a new key using regedit that points anything with
> the vlc: prefix to the vlc viewer. Here is the structure of the new
> key:
> [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT]
>   [vlc]
>       (Default) = "URL:vlc Protocol"
>       URL Protocol = ""
>       [DefaultIcon]
>           (Default) = "vlc.exe"
>       [shell]
>           [open]
>               [command]
>                   (Default) = "c:\Program Files\videolan\vlc\vlc.exe" " 
> %L"
>
> 3. On the myth side, I edited the recorded_progams.php (buried in a
> themes directory).  I only changed the line that creates the image
> link(it's buried in an if statement that determines creates a URL for
> the image if you have that feature turned on) - I figure that way if I
> still want to download the program I can just click on the description
> and it will still function as the author intended.  So comment out the
> original image tag and replace it with something like this(you'll need
> to adjust for the name of your samba share and the directory that your
> recordings are stored in):
> echo '<a 
> href="vlc:\\\\Mythtv\\video\\recordings\\'.basename($show->filename).'">'
>
> once again, just for reference, Mythtv is the name of my box and my
> recordings are in /video/recordings/ - so you'll need to adjust
> accordingly.
>
> Anyway, just a little hack I thought I'd throw out there in case
> anyone else was looking for something similar.  I've had success with
> it on 3 different windows machines so far.  I'm not a programmer or
> anything, so please let me know if there was an easier way to do this
> that I missed.
>
> Kent
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