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

[Igor Cicimov]

I ended up using the following script to launch Mplayer playback:

#!/bin/bash
MPLAYER=/usr/bin/mplayer
FILE=$1
MOVIE=${FILE##*/}
VIDEOS="/media/drive1/videos/ /media/drive2/videos/"
MOVIE_PATH=$(find $VIDEOS -name $MOVIE)
$MPLAYER -nogui -quiet -fs -zoom -noborder -vo gl -ao alsa:noblock
$MOVIE_PATH
exit 0

which does the job (assuming there is only one copy of each movie in the
VIDEOS group)

Although I would like to use the Internal player too in some cases. In 0.20
there was a menu "Video manager" where I could open a pop-up menu for
particular movie and edit it's meta data and/or the player command. I can't
find this option in 0.23 so wonder was it completely removed (which I
doubt) or I've been looking in wrong places?

Cheers,
Igor


On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:41 AM, George Nassas <gnassas at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2012-03-24, at 10:32 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>
> > The use of external player as a default is planned for
> > removal, as well as all the various options for per-extension and
> > per-file external players.  There will be one single "alternative
> > player" that can be set and manually called instead of the internal
> > player through the UI for troubled videos.
>
> This is a good idea and overdue. Glad to know that a total zap of the
> external option was just loose talk.
>
> As for misbehaving videos it's not worth the bother when some dumbbell
> encodes a lecture in realvideo or some other abomination. Easier to shell
> out to mplayer and move on with life. I know how to file bugs when there
> are actual problems.
>
> - George
>
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