[mythtv-users] Mythfrontend will not play BD folder

[Stephen Worthington]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 13:43:59 -0500, you wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Greg Oliver <oliver.greg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>> stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:24:50 -0500, you wrote:
>>>
>>> >On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Stephen Worthington <
>>> >stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> My mother's Mythbuntu 16.04 box has now got a folder with a BD image
>>> >> in its videos storage group.  I can make it play for her using
>>> >> mythavtest:
>>> >>
>>> >> mythavtest /mnt/sda4/videos/Donizetti\ -\ Don\ Pasquale\ -\ John\ Del\
>>> >> Carlo\ 2010/
>>> >>
>>> >> But when I try to play it using mythfrontend, nothing happens.  I have
>>> >> tried using Play on the folder, and using "I" then "Play folder" and
>>> >> any other variants I could find.  Nothing works - mythfrontend does
>>> >> not even attempt to play it, and there is nothing at all in the log
>>> >> file.  Is seems that it does not recognise that it should even try to
>>> >> play the folder, so I am wondering if there is some option somewhere
>>> >> that I need to set to make it see BD and DVD folders as playable. Does
>>> >> anyone have any ideas?  Does playing of BD and DVD folders work for
>>> >> anyone?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> root at crw-pvr:/mnt/sda4/videos# mythutil --version
>>> >> Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
>>> >> MythTV Version : v29.0-41-g0cf1422
>>> >> MythTV Branch : fixes/29
>>> >> Network Protocol : 91
>>> >> Library API : 29.20170212-1
>>> >> QT Version : 5.5.1
>>> >> Options compiled in:
>>> >>  linux profile use_hidesyms using_alsa using_oss using_pulse
>>> >> using_pulseoutput using_backend using_bindings_perl
>>> >> using_bindings_python using_bindings_php using_crystalhd using_dvb
>>> >> using_firewire using_frontend using_hdhomerun using_vbox using_ceton
>>> >> using_hdpvr using_ivtv using_joystick_menu using_libcec
>>> >> using_libcrypto using_libdns_sd using_libfftw3 using_libxml2
>>> >> using_lirc using_mheg using_opengl using_opengl_video
>>> >> using_opengl_themepainter using_qtwebkit using_qtscript using_qtdbus
>>> >> using_taglib using_v4l2 using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv
>>> >> using_profiletype using_bindings_perl using_bindings_python
>>> >> using_bindings_php using_freetype2 using_mythtranscode using_opengl
>>> >> using_vaapi using_vdpau using_ffmpeg_threads using_mheg using_libass
>>> >> using_libxml2 using_libmp3lame
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> >Are you running mythfrontend as root as in the example above?
>>> Permissions
>>> >on file and folder not allowing the mythfrontend user to play it?
>>> >
>>> >ps auwwxf|grep mythfrontend | awk '{print $1}'
>>> >
>>> >run mythavtest on that same file when logged in as that user and see what
>>> >you get.
>>> >
>>> >-Greg
>>>
>>> Mythfrontend and mythavtest are both running from the mythtv frontend
>>> user (rosemary).  The permissions on the BD directory are full access
>>> for everyone:
>>>
>>> root at crw-pvr:/mnt/sda4/videos# ll -d Donizetti\ -\ Don\ Pasquale\ -\
>>> John\ Del\ Carlo\ 2010
>>> drwxrwxrwx 5 rosemary mythtv 24 Apr  9  2017 Donizetti - Don Pasquale
>>> - John Del Carlo 2010/
>>>
>>
>> Just stabbing in the dark, but maybe because there is no file extension.
>> I have never tried to play something without an extension before.
>>
>
>Damn - I must have drank too much that night :)  I just re-read and see it
>was for a folder versus a file.
>
>Is it an unencrypted BluRay rip?
>Did you open the disc and dd (or some Windows / Mac equivalent) the entire
>thing to make a folder structure?

It is a decrypted rip of a BD.  I only have one BD drive (on my
Windows PC) and no BD players, so there is no way for my mother to
play BD discs directly on her MythTV box.

The rip seems fine - it plays without any problems when using
mythavtest.  It is just that mythfrontend does not even attempt to
play it - it does not seem to think a directory containing a BD rip is
something it should try to play.  I have tried using a directory name
that has no spaces in it, and then to "test.mp4".  But there is never
anything in mythfrontend.log that indicates mythfrontend even tried to
start playing the directory.  It is the same with DVDs ripped to a
directory - mythavtest plays them, mythfrontend does not.