[mythtv-users] "Movies" Menu missing

[Nick Morrott]

On 10/02/07, Pete Holmes <petros429 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have just completed setting up my mythtv .20a box on fc6 and was playing
> around with the "Movies" option that let me play my personal videos (This
> menu option was with my "Images" area), I am not speaking of my recordings
> just avi's that I placed out there. I now realized that for some reason it
> is missing. I am not sure what I have done to make it disappear. Can someone
> point me in the right direction on how to get it back? Is there even a way
> to edit this back into the menu?

Were you editing the theme files directly (e.g.
/usr/share/mythtv/library.xml)? Do you still have the MythVideo plugin
installed?

If you fancy editing the menus, you should copy the menu files to your
mythfrontend user's ~/.mythtv directory and edit them there. The
originals will be left untouched in /usr/share/mythtv should anything
go wrong with your menu edits in the future.

In its simplest form, the menu item for MythVideo (in
/usr/share/mythtv/library.xml) can be:

<button>
     <type>VIDEO_BROWSER</type>
     <text>Watch Videos</text>
     <action>JUMP MythVideo</action>
     <depends>mythvideo</depends>
</button>

This should give you the option to run MythVideo again.

Nick
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