[mythtv-users] Customizing the Video Browser
Kichigai Mentat
kichigai at comcast.net
Wed Mar 15 06:39:30 UTC 2006
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On Mar 14, 2006, at 09.56, Garth Benedict wrote:
> I personally never got automount working for anything on my FC3
> system. Either CD or DVD just does nothing. Or does nothing but
> lock the drive shut in some busy state. I cannot solve your
> automatically indexing request, but my simple solution was to add a
> Mount/Unmount command to the menu. Eject as well. I use sudo to
> bypass the permissions...
Yeah, the more I look at this, the more it seems like an
unsatisfactory solution. If I use MPlayer in MythVideo, I lose the
ability to control playback with my remote. If I use the internal
video player, I lose some compatibility. Thanks for the help though.
>
>
> <button>
> <type>Mount</type>
> <text>Mount</text>
> <action>EXEC sudo /bin/mount /dev/dvd</action>
> </button>
>
> <button>
> <type>EJECT</type>
> <text>Eject</text>
> <action>EXEC sudo /usr/bin/eject -T /dev/dvd</action>
> </button>
>
>
> On 3/14/06, Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
> I've always loved using my XBox as a media center. However, one
> thing that's irked me recently, is that the best way for me to play
> back videos is to reboot my XBox, and load up XBMC.
>
> I'd much rather be using the MythVideo browser, but it's far less
> intuitive than XBMC. I've set the DVD drive's mount-point to a
> directory in side the root MythVideo directory (I plan to add some
> network locations later). My big problems right now are the auto-
> mounter and the file indexing system.
>
> I'm having a trick and a half getting auto-mount to work, but I'm
> sure I can figure it out. I'm wondering if there's a way to get
> MythVideo to index videos when the disc is mounted, or when the
> video browser is loaded. Anyone else tried this? Any success? Or am
> I better off just rigging a menu item to reboot the XBox on-demand?
>
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