[mythtv-users] Playing XVids off a CD

Phill Edwards philledwards at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 15:04:15 UTC 2006


> Well, it's not elegant but you could symlink your CD drive into your
> Myth videos folder, then either use the browse by filesystem view or run
> the video manager/import to import the files for playing as needed.  I
> like the later because once the metadata is in the system and you don't
> delete it the next time you run the video manager and it sees the
> missing files because the CD isn't mounted, you can just insert the CD
> and play

Thanks. I did try that once before but went off the idea because it
kept asking if I wanted to delete the vide as it couldn't find the
file in video manager. I might think about a shell script that finds
the file name on the CD and launches it that way - or something.

Thanks,
Phill


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