[mythtv-users] MythTV Player 1.1.9 available to all in the Google Play Store

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Daniel Frey <dmfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Ah, I was not considering all the files from a blueray rip.  I can filter
> these out.  When you to play a blueray rip, do you just play the first in
> the sequence?  Is there some other initiating file?

In mythfrontend, the BluRay folder appears twice in the user
interface, once as a folder and once as a whole disc.  If you select
the folder, you can browse into the disc and see the raw folder
hierarchy and a few of the files but there's not much there.  Most of
the files actually on the disc don't show up at all.  To play the disc
in mythfrontend, you play the file that represents the disc as a
whole.  MythTV figures out the mapping between the raw files and user
visible chapters/titles.  There's a many to many relationship here.
Typically the main title will be split into several smaller chunks
that need to be played in sequence, but it can be more complicated
than that.  The version of Up that I got came in three languages
(English/Spanish/French) and they actually rendered parts of the movie
containing text the user is meant to read in each language.  On the
disc there were files named 00001, 00002, 00003, etc. where the order
to play the files are:

English: 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, ...
French:  1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, ...
Spanish: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, ...

Current versions of MythTV know how to figure out which files to play
in what order.  In older releases, after ripping the disc the user had
to figure out by trial and error and had to cat the files together to
make a whole title.  I'm grateful that's not needed anymore.  (It took
me quite a while to get Up pieced together correctly.)

> In the video services
> api, does it return a different video id for every individual movie? or does
> each file get a unique id?

It doesn't seem to be consistent.  There's always an Id for the disc
as a whole, but then there are these extra ones for some of the files
on the disc.  I don't know what the pattern is for which files get
their own id different from the disc id.  (For all I know, it may
depend on the version of MythTV I was running at the time of the
initial import.)

Eric