[mythtv-users] Mount samba shares of videos on mythtv box

[Chris Henderson]

On 5/11/06, Xamindar <junkxamindar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First of all has anyone done this?
>
> What I am going to try to do is have a cron job that will check to see
> if my desktop is up and then mount the video directory of my desktop
> onto my mythtv box. Then hopefully add a menu option to browse that
> folder and launch a program like xine or mplayer with the files. It will
> also have to check every minute or so and unmount the share if my
> desktop goes down.
>
> I already made the script and it works pretty good:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> ## Set these variables for your system
> #STORAGE should be set to where you localy (on mythtv box) mount your
> samba share
> STORAGE=/mnt/video/external_videos
> # set this one to the ip or hostname of the computer with the share to
> be mounted
> COMPUTER2.168.2.22
> # Your samba share
> SHARE=//192.168.2.22/storage
> #########Do not modify the following##########
>
> # Set variables
> MOUNTED=`mount | grep -c -m 1 $STORAGE`
> UP=`ping -c1 $COMPUTER | grep "[0-9] received" | awk '{print $4}'`
> #Thanks Seth ;)
>
> # Check if the machine is up AND not mounted, then mount the share
>
> if [ "$UP" = "1" ] && [ "$MOUNTED" = "0" ]; then
>         smbmount $SHARE $STORAGE -o guest
> fi
>
> # Check if the machine is down AND mounted, then unmount the share
>
> if [ "$UP" = "0" ] && [ "$MOUNTED" = "1" ]; then
>         umount -l $STORAGE
> fi
>
>
> Now I just need to figure out a way to have mythtv display a list of the
> folder's contents and allow me to select files to by played.  I tried
> using myth video but it doesn't show any files to be played.  Also, it
> would be useful if I could select a bunch of files and have it play them
> all one after the other for example in a playlist.
>
> Any ideas of what I can add to my mythtv menus?
>
> Thanks.
> _


Hi,

Sorry i can t help you with this in the slightest, but you might have helped
me figure out a wayto copy new recordings to my main machine or my laptop so
i can watch thenon the trian into work.

thanks

CH
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