[mythtv-users] Playing XVids off a CD

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Jul 27, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Jongi wrote:

> > 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
>
> Has a more elegant method of playing DivX/Xvid off a CD/DVD been  
> found?

Write a script that will look for the files on the disc you insert  
and determine if it's Divx or a regular DVD or whatever and pass it  
to the correct player. Then point to that script when launching the  
Play DVD command. 
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