[mythtv-users] How to update video list when copying over a new video?

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 20:07:36 UTC 2012


On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 3/24/2012 08:49, George Nassas wrote:
>>> If you want to use external players, you'll have to use the old local-mount-based video setup
>> No, you'll have to wrap your external player in a trivial shell script which strips off the myth junk to get the relative path and prepends something to place that path in your filesystem.
>
> Or better yet, you wrap your external player in a less trivial
> application that injects itself into the file access routines and makes
> those external players capable handling myth:// URIs and remote
> content.  This is the current plan.

Has anyone written such a program? ie something that takes a myth url
and spits the resulting stream out on stdout?


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